London -- A U.S. playwright has promised to bequeath a collection of rare texts by William Shakespeare to the current incarnation of the Bard's Globe theater in London.
The BBC said John Wolfson has pledged to leave more than 450 works, including a first folio of 18 Shakespearean plays, to the theater when he dies.
Wolfson told the British broadcaster he felt "fortunate to have found a place as appropriate for my books as Shakespeare's Globe."
The playwright added he was happy the items, which includes texts by scribes who are thought to have influenced Shakespeare, "will be used to great advantage by students, scholars and educators for generations to come."
Peter Kyle, the theater's chief executive, told the BBC the Globe is "delighted" to know it will some day receive the "wonderful" collection.
Miami -- U.S. scientists, using a new method to evaluate hurricane formation, say they've discovered global warming might produce fewer, but stronger, hurricanes.
Associate Professor David Nolan and postdoctoral researcher Eric Rappin of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science developed the new computer model for evaluating hurricane frequency and formation in present and future tropical climates.
The scientists said current computer simulations of global climate change represent the coarsest features of hurricanes, and thus might be in error.
Nolan and Rappin said they created a more precise computer model.
"We designed the computer simulations to show that as the ocean temperature increased, hurricanes would form more rapidly and easily, even in the presence of wind shear," said Nolan. "Instead, we got exactly the opposite result. As the water temperature increased, the effectiveness of the wind shear in suppressing hurricane formation actually became greater."
