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...study took advantage of the university's unique Biosphere 2 research facility. The 7.2 million-cubic-foot dome - famous for an experiment in the early 1990s when eight people lived inside it for two years - allows scientists to recreate almost any climate on Earth. Adams and his collaborators kept two groups of piñon trees inside Biosphere 2 in nearly identical conditions. One key difference: for the experimental group, researchers ramped up the temperature 7° Fahrenheit (4° Celsius), the rough midpoint of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's business-as-usual predictions for warming in this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dire Fate of Forests in a Warmer World | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

...wouldn't use the word cure," says Dr. Richard Burt, one of the co-authors from Northwestern University. "But it appears we changed the natural history of the disease. It's the first therapy for patients that leaves them treatment-free - no insulin, no immune suppression for almost five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Stem Cells May Reverse Type 1 Diabetes | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

...films, becoming something like the queen mum of porn. Unlike Lovelace and other early sex actresses, she never radiated victimhood. She seemed in charge of her career from the start - when she said, in effect, I'll make a dirty movie, if you pay me like a movie star - almost till the end. Almost till yesterday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marilyn Chambers, the Ivory Snow Porn Star, Dead at 56 | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

...sorry to spam, but we have another plea! We made almost all the money we needed to publish our issue coming out May 1st. We only need $300 more. We just want to remind students that this year's magazine will cost $10 a copy, so if you order it before it comes out, you help us print the magazine and get your paying done well before we start selling...

Author: By Wendy H. Chang | Title: Still Waiting for H Bomb to Put Out | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

...milled around them, brandishing photographs they said proved that soldiers had fired directly at the Red Shirts. "I came not to protest but to cheer up people who are fighting for justice," said Pramaha Chartree, from the Sotorn temple. Last summer, at nearly the same place, other monks said almost the same thing - but in support of the Yellow Shirt crowds who had camped out in front of Government House. When even monks find their loyalties divided, there promises to be no easy karmic fix for this predominantly Buddhist kingdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scores Injured as Bangkok Protests Erupt into Chaos | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

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