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...genius leaps across the centuries. When he seeks explanations, for example, of the faint glow between the horns of the crescent moon or the origin of fossils, he is nearly a century ahead of the scientific thought of his day. He correctly attributes lunar light to solar rays reflected from the Earth. Like Galileo, he risks ecclesiastical wrath by rejecting the belief that fossils were deposited on mountaintops by Noah's flood (because, he argues, a deluge would have scattered them helter-skelter rather than leaving them in orderly assemblages). And though his mind-set remains medieval, he demonstrates...
FARMERS' ALMANAC Forecast: The slightly younger rival publication says that "virtually the entire country will be subjected to stormy and unseasonably cold conditions for the upcoming winter, even in the so-called 'Sun-Belt' areas..." Methodology: Solar activity and other variables...
...FARMER'S ALMANAC Forecast: "Snowfall is expected to be above normal in much of the eastern and central parts of the country...Snowfall in the Rocky Mountains and Northwest will generally be below normal..." Methodology: Solar activity and other variables...
HAGERS-TOWN TOWN AND COUNTRY ALMANACK Forecast: The local Maryland annual foresees a season "shorter, colder, but less snowy than last winter" but still calls for a higher-than-average 61 in. of snow. Methodology: Solar activity and other variables...
...Republican, Schiff sponsored the Sexual Crimes Against Children Prevention Act, which increased sentences for those convicted of child pornography, and supports a "two-strikes" policy: those convicted of two violent crimes would be sentenced to life. That, along with his protection of the Sandia National Laboratories for nuclear and solar research, has earned him solid victories in the past three elections...