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Most of the names Clark chose are still being used, because hurricane names are repeated in a six-year cycle. A name is retired only when the namesake storm causes extensive damage and the country affected makes such a request. In 2001, for example, Michelle replaced Marilyn, which demolished the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1995. Opal became Olga after its blow to the Florida Panhandle that same year. This year Andrew, which devastated Florida in 1992, was replaced by Alex. "We've probably heard the last of Jeanne," Clark notes. Van Wyck won't be sorry...
Radcliffe began with 45 Harvard professors who agreed, per her request, to give advanced instruction to Cambridge girls. It was still not a degree-granting institution until, according to current Dean of the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study Drew Gilpin Faust. Agassiz then began paying almost daily visits to then-Harvard president Charles W. Eliot. In 1882, Radcliffe College was born...
...help. The U.S. has listened to Canberra, says historian Edwards, on issues like Indonesia's financial crisis and East Timor. And it welcomed the government's decision to send troops to restore order in the Solomon Islands. In August, Foreign Minister Downer visited North Korea at Washington's request to urge the regime to continue talks on its rogue nuclear program. If the U.S. and China ever reached the brink of war over Taiwan, Australia - with its lucrative financial ties with China - would "be doing everything it could to negotiate a settlement," Edwards says. If that failed, it would face...
...Trackstar—resisted at first, saying he would rather focus on his music. But as St. Louis’s hip hop scene became more and more dominated by what Moskof calls “the Bush issue,” even he got dragged in. At the request of two national political groups, he helped promote a St. Louis event called Slam Bush, where hip hop artists rapped at a person in a George Bush mask as if they had actually gotten a chance to challenge the president in verse. The event drew the largest crowds ever seen...
...symposium featured a screening of the film “Touched,” an independent documentary made about alien encounters at Mack’s request...