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The Name of the Rain

Ororo Munroe, aka Storm                                                                                                   Marvel
To no one's great surprise, a study of 60 years of hurricanes has shown that we tend to take storms with female names less seriously than those with male names. But hell hath no fury and all that, so beware: This bias has led to female-named storms claiming more victims: http://grist.org/list/americans-underestimate-storms-with-womens-names-die-in-droves/

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