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...into a 1,300-year deep freeze. The more that becomes known about this period, named the Younger Dryas (after a tundra plant), the more scientists fear that the rapid melting of sea ice could cause the same catastrophe again. Only next time, writes geophysicist Penn State's Richard Alley in a forthcoming book, Two-Mile Time Machine, the effects would be much greater, "dropping northern temperatures and spreading droughts far larger than the changes that have affected humans through recorded history." Would this be "the end of humanity?" he asks rhetorically. "No," he replies. "An uncomfortable time for humanity...
...were told we had an hour. There were 40 minutes left. The cell phone rang. "Drive the van to the alley behind the coffee shop," said the interpreter. "And wait...
...shop, talking to the interpreter for what seemed like six hours but was probably only 20 minutes. We stared at the dark windows of the shop. We stared at the cell phone. We stared at one another. What was this, Panmunjom? Finally, the interpreter called Kim: Drive down the alley and wait. We drove down the alley and waited. Nothing...
...convention was both a litmus test and a coming-out party for the new for-profit political digerati, who occupied skyboxes and overflowed a media center that instantly became known as Internet Alley. At Voter.com a site reportedly backed by $50 million in venture capital, 35 computers in a Cyber Cafe spewed briefings, commentary and gavel-to-gavel coverage. "We want to combine really good traditional journalism with edgy contributions from the best guys," says Carl Bernstein, who as executive editor of Voter.com is among a bevy of Old Guard notables to be drawn to the brash new sites...
Andrew Rasiej, chief executive of a dotcom start-up called Digital Club Network, was visiting a public high school in Silicon Alley in downtown Manhattan and was amazed that it had no computers. He dashed off an e-mail to a handful of fellow CEOs suggesting that they get together over a weekend and put the school online. More than 150 volunteers showed up for what turned into the digital equivalent of a barn raising. Rasiej, 41, was standing on a ladder, pulling computer cable through the high school's ceiling with Gene DeRose, CEO of Jupiter Communications, when...