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To: John Hunt who wrote (16257)	8/26/1998 4:20:00 PM
From: Link Lady	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18056

Different Topic Bonnie is a ''pregnant'' hurricane with second eye CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - NASA pronounced Hurricane Bonnie ''pregnant'' Wednesday when a pilot who flew inside the hurricane reported seeing a second eye within the storm system. ''I saw a large, domed cloud that looked like a mini-hurricane swirling out of the top of Bonnie,'' said pilot Ken Broda, who has piloted a NASA ER-2 airplane into the storm twice since it entered the Caribbean. Bonnie hammered the North Carolina coast Wednesday with winds in excess of 100 mph, torrential rains and heavy surf. ''We're calling Bonnie a pregnant hurricane,'' said David Steitz, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. ''It's the first time someone has reported seeing that.'' Steitz said the mini-hurricane, born at 55,000 feet , posed no additional threat and may have dissipated quickly. ''At that altitude, it could not spin off into a totally separate storm system,'' he said. A team of NASA and other U.S. government weather scientists made a third flight into the hurricane Wednesday to study lightning and perhaps gather additional data on several other anomalies, including an asymmetrical ''blinking'' eye that disappeared and reappeared. ''Bonnie is like nothing we would expect,'' said weather scientist Ed Zipser, who was aboard one of five aircraft that flew inside the hurricane Monday. One of the planes, a DC-8, actually ran into a snow storm inside the hurricane, Zipser infobeat.com

To: John Hunt who wrote (16257)	8/27/1998 5:50:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 18056

Soros Takes A $2B Hit nypostonline.com << Billionaire investor and super speculator George Soros took a massive $2 billion hit from playing the Russian market, it emerged yesterday. Investors look to Soros' speculation acumen and his time-tested ability to successfully make big wagers in global currencies, stocks and commodities. But this time King Midas' golden touch didn't work. Instead, investors in Soros' $22 billion group of funds took it on the chin as Russia's financial crisis looks headed for near-meltdown. The worst of the market effects from Russia's financial crisis has probably passed because most Russian investments have been essentially marked down to zero, Stanley Druckenmiller, manager of Soros' flagship Quantum Fund, said on the CNBC cable network. >>