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...battle against it. Generations of American conservationists have fought to preserve wildlife and to keep nature pristine in the face of a growing population and pollution. To a remarkable extent, they've succeeded - almost 16% of the entire landmass of the U.S. is protected, and the Endangered Species Act has helped save countless animals from extinction. But global warming threatens to change all that, by altering the very foundation on which the conservation movement was built. What good is a wildlife reserve if the protected animals can't live there, because climate change pushes them out? What difference does...
...government programs have delivered on america's promise as a land of opportunity as explicitly as the GI Bill. When it was signed in June 1944, the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (the policy's official name) offered a college scholarship to all those who had served in uniform, whether or not they had fought on the front lines. In the decades since, benefits have fallen far behind the cost of university tuitions, prompting Senators Jim Webb and Chuck Hagel to draft a new GI Bill that would offer soldiers full tuition at any state school...
...rstedt began to strategize, tapping into some of the survival skills he had learned in the military. "I started to react very differently from normal. I started to say, 'O.K., there is option one, option two. Decide. Act.' I didn't say, 'Oh, the boat is sinking.' I didn't even think about the wider perspective." Like many survivors, Härstedt experienced the illusion of centrality, a coping mechanism in which the brain fixates on the individual experience. "I just saw my very small world...
...like "Sock it to me!," Dick Martin and his partner, Dan Rowan, turned their hilarious and unhinged routine into a smash hit with Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. The variety show debuted in 1968 and ran for five years. Before that, the duo had spent a decade honing their act in clubs from Miami to Las Vegas. "We were raw," Martin once said of that period, "but we looked good together, and we were funny." He later directed sitcoms, helming episodes of Family Ties and The Bob Newhart Show, among others...
...that public outrage over the conduct of the investigation will build and ensure that the case gets transferred to India's Central Bureau of Investigation, which is expected to do a better job than the police. In the long run, India's police will need to clean up its act. However it is resolved, the Noida investigation could well be a first step toward change...