FAMILY matters to Penelope Wong Ying Yen. It mattered that Wednesday morning of Aug 21, 2002 when the first-term senator took her place in the Senate chamber in Parliament and delivered her maiden speech.

Following are story ideas and tips about upcoming AMS meetings, papers in our peer-reviewed journals, and other happenings in the atmospheric and related sciences community.

DOHA, Qatar -- The first lady of this conservative Muslim sheikdom walked up to the podium in a luxury hotel banquet room and sized up the crowd of mostly wealthy businessmen.

The stories I read about non-violence reaffirm my belief that people are the same everywhere and when faced by a similar set of circumstances their reaction and the consequences of their actions will be similar too.

An ex-diplomat convicted of having sex with teenage girls in the Congo and Brazil and taping the encounters is asking a judge for leniency, claiming that cultural differences in those countries make sex with girls more acceptable.