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We recently came back from a trip to a magical city, San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. It?s a beautiful place, with steep, cobble stoned streets, ancient churches and outdoor markets. Every morning we would walk into town, peering into the tiny stores and catching glimpses of lovely gardens behind high walls. At night we would sit in the Jardin in the center of the city and listen to the local musicians.

The only trouble we had driving across the border was that (as we later discovered) we were using the Spanish word for “trolley” instead of “automobile,” but as soon as the official went out into the parking lot and discovered that we were actually driving a car, he gave us our required permit.
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Sunspots are unexpectedly erupting all across the face of the sun today as the current solar max continues beyond the point where it was expected to subside. The predicted sunspot count for the height of the max was 150, but NASA places the present count at 250,(as of June 10, 2001) far higher than expected.

In addition, the cycle was supposed to be past its maximum, but it would appear that extensive solar activity remains a possibility in the near future. The number of sunspots now appearing on the face of the disk is unusual.

Some observers are calling this a “mega-max,” given that it saw one of the largest solar flares ever recorded (April 4, 2001) and that it now appears to be continuing well beyond its expected termination.
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We recently came back from a trip to a magical city, San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. It?s a beautiful place, with steep, cobble stoned streets, ancient churches and outdoor markets. Every morning we would walk into town, peering into the tiny stores and catching glimpses of lovely gardens behind high walls. At night we would sit in the Jardin in the center of the city and listen to the local musicians…but all was not perfect, even in this idyllic place. To read the full diary entry, click here.

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A new satellite survey of over 2,000 glaciers shows that most of them are now shrinking. Scientists are concerned about melting glaciers as far apart as Mount Kilimanjaro, the Himalayas and Glacier National Park in Montana. New photographs taken by NASA?s Terra spacecraft show the shrinkage is dramatic and happening on a global scale.

Rick Wessels of the U.S. Geographical Survey compared thousands of the new images to aerial photographs dating back 20 years. ?Some glaciers are more like snowbanks,? he said. Mount Kilimanjaro has lost 82 percent of its ice since 1912 and scientists calculate that it will lose all of its snow between 2010 and 2020.
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