HURRICANE BUSINESS
Looks like man-made "global warming" isn't living up to the speculation and hype that an increase in air and water temperatures generates more hurricanes. In fact, forecasters at Colorado State University are predicting only six Atlantic hurricanes will form this summer and autumn, fewer than normal.
This means Americans in the eastern half of the country can expect hurricanes Ana, Bill, Claudette, Danny, Erika and Fred.
On another stormy note, members of Congress were briefed in recent days by real-life hurricane hunters from Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi, all of them military reservists who regularly fly through the "eyewall" of storms to collect data.
"Last year, we flew into the eye of a hurricane 162 times, and that's not counting the smaller storms," noted Air Force Maj. Chad Gibson , the 403rd Wing chief of public affairs, who with Brig. Gen. James R. Muscatell, 403rd Wing commander, briefed more than 60 congressional members and staffers from the Senate and House.
SING IT, GERGEN
In his closing remarks of his recent commencement address at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, former journalist and presidential adviser David Gergen, who heads the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, resorted to lyrics from the Oak Ridge Boys to humorously send off the new graduates to their futures:
"You don't have to go home but you can't stay here."
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