Brown's fictional alter ego, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, is once again on the run.

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R. man named Robert Humphreys, instinctively grasped that television was about to alter politics as thoroughly as the nuclear option had recently changed military strategy.

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"When you replace soil and grass with concrete and asphalt, you alter the balance of energy that occurs at the earth's surface, " says Dr. Robert Bornstein, a professor of meteorology at San Jose State University in California.

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