Word: storms
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Moon treaty stirs a storm...
Walter Cronkite is stability and security, an anchor in the storm. Dan Rather [Feb. 25] is aggressive and provocative; he will battle the storm. And yet, the CBS choice is certainly commensurate with the Cronkite tradition because Dan, like Walter, is excellence...
...want to know about the weather, and TV forecasters tell them-not just the niggardly name, rank and serial number of temperature highs and lows but also the larger meteorological events: cold sweeping down from Canada, a warm front out of the Gulf Stream or the metastasis of a storm from Martinique. It may sometimes sound like a cheerful patter of mumbo jumbo and Celsius conversions, like a lounge comedian who did a semester at M.I.T., but on the whole, people learn what they want to know. The audience pays weathercasters the compliment of its attention, and advertisers...
...taught to communicate with humans in American Sign Language, a system of hand gestures developed for the deaf.* He eventually learned to make and recognize 125 signs. But the frisky little chimp and other apes who have received such "language" instruction are now the center of a raging academic storm. The issue: can apes really master the essence of human language-the creation of sentences...
...sewage to flow down Malibu Creek to the ocean and forcing officials to close beaches along 25 miles of shore, as far south as Marina Del Rey. In Redondo Beach, harbor officials scuttled the Lady Alexandra, a 225-ft. ship converted into a restaurant and disco. Storm-whipped waves had turned the ship on its side, and officials feared the vessel might break its mooring cables and block the channel...