Saltwater taffy is a soft, chewy confection that supposedly originated in Atlantic City after a flood. According to popular lore, an enterprising salesman sold his flood damaged candy as saltwater taffy. Lemon lime soda gives an added kick to this recipe.

The Atlantic organizes the ingredients for a powerful hurricane season to create a situation where either everything is conducive to hurricane activity or nothing is — potentially making the Atlantic more vulnerable to climate change than the world's other hurricane hot spots.

University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have found that the Atlantic organizes the ingredients for a powerful hurricane season to create a situation where either everything is conducive to hurricane activity or nothing is-potentially making the Atlantic more vulnerable to climate change than the world's other hurricane hot spots.

AN unpopular incumbent, pursuing a disastrous war and domestic policies that have enraged his own base – in most European democracies that would be a recipe for crushing defeat at the ballot box. But the diffuse nature of politics on the other side of the Atlantic means that is not necessarily the case.