SCIENCE IN THE NEWS I'm Bob Doughty with Sarah Long, and this is
the VOA Special English program SCIENCE IN THE NEWS. This week
-- a report on the powerful storms of this past month ... news
of a new dinosaur, and the oldest modern European ... and, a
look at one way feeling happy may be good for the health.
Earlier this month, South Korea was hit by its strongest ocean
storm since records began a century ago. At least one-hundred-
seventeen people were killed in Typhoon Maemi. And there were
damage estimates of four thousand million dollars. The following
week, Hurricane Isabel tore into the mid-Atlantic coast of the
eastern United States. American officials said the powerful
storm was responsible for at least forty deaths. And, in
northwestern Mexico, Hurricane Marty was blamed last week for
five deaths. Hurricanes and typhoons are the same thing. Weather
scientists call them hurricanes when the storms develop east of
the International Date Line. They call them typhoons when the
storms happen west of the dat