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Why do news accounts of heavy weather invariably anthropomorphize nature with words like: wrath, raging, unforgiving, unrelenting, punishing, brutal, mercilessly, mean, fierce, ferocious, cruel, nasty, furious, violent, etc. I really don’t believe that nature bears a personal grudge against us or expresses attitudes, which are uniquely ours.

RICHARD MATHESON, Calabasas

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