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...JUNIOR MAKES BUCS' OPPONENTS SAY OW Not to be outdone by the Jets, the Buccaneers selected Alabama linebacker Keith McCants with the fourth-overall pick in 1990. They, too, passed on a future Hall of Famer at the same position, USC's Junior Seau, who was scooped up by the San Diego Chargers with the next pick. McCants might enter the Hall of Fame, too, if he pays the $12 admission fee like the rest...
Indicators That's Oil, Folks The owners of a struggling service station in Alabama sued opec for conspiring to fix the price of oil - and won. Didn't anyone tell them that opec was created, and openly exists, for that very reason? The ruling is virtually unenforceable. Off the Menu When investment banks tell employees to tighten their belts, it doesn't mean taking a vow of poverty. Staff at Credit Suisse First Boston have been asked to keep celebratory dinners below $10,000, while Goldman Sachs has cut back on free fruit, first-class travel and taxis home. Cold...
Research by M.I.T. atmospheric scientist Richard Lindzen suggests that warming will tend to make cirrus clouds go away. Another critic, John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, says that while the models reproduce the current climate in a general way, they fail to get right the amount of warming at different levels in the atmosphere. Neither Lindzen nor Christy (both IPCC authors) doubts, however, that humans are influencing the climate. But they question how much--and how high temperatures will go. Both scientists are distressed that only the most extreme scenarios, based on huge population growth...
...current book, however, delves more deeply into the nuances of the movement era than Diane McWhorter's Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Movement (Simon & Schuster; 701 pages; $35). For McWhorter, this is not only history but also autobiography. A native of Birmingham, she was 10 in 1963, about the same age as the four little black girls who were blown to pieces in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. But, as she writes, she was a born and bred member of the city's white upper crust "growing...
...Research by M.I.T. atmospheric scientist Richard Lindzen suggests that warming will tend to make cirrus clouds go away. Another critic, John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, says that while the models reproduce the current climate in a general way, they fail to get right the amount of warming at different levels in the atmosphere. Neither Lindzen nor Christy (both IPCC authors) doubts, however, that humans are influencing the climate. But they question how much?and how high temperatures will go. Both scientists are distressed that only the most extreme scenarios, based on huge population growth...