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...more environmental disaster to the list of potential dire consequences of the greenhouse effect. A general warming of the earth because of increasing amounts of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere might not only melt the polar ice caps and drastically alter weather patterns but cause more ferocious storms. Writing in Nature, M.I.T. Meteorologist Kerry Emanuel warned that a warmer climate could result in hurricanes packing up to 50% more destructive power. This could happen, he suggests, within 40 to 80 years, when some scientists think CO2 levels will have doubled and ocean temperatures will have increased...
Following a trend in many churches toward inclusive language in Scripture and worship, the new NAB avoids male terms for generalized human references (for example, "one" replacing "man"). The editors decided, however, not to alter male references to God and Jesus and to retain "kingdom of God" because the phrase "reign of God" seems to refer to precipitation when read aloud...
...could also alter the entire housing market, Nash said. "It will be more difficult for property owner to evict a troublesome tenant, and thus the selection process for residents will be more strigent...
Attempts by North to alter, and perhaps even delete, certain key files may have been foiled by another feature of the system. Like most computers, the NSC mainframe deletes electronic documents not by obliterating the data they contain, but by removing their file names from a central disk directory. The body of information remains intact indefinitely -- or until the space it occupies is written over with new data. Thus a resourceful programmer, armed with a description of a document that has been zapped, can often resurrect it from the disk. "We were living under a delusion," admitted one Administration official...
...handled congressional relations for Reagan in the first term, and alone among Baker's assistants he retains close ties to the President's Old Guard, especially Deaver and longtime Political Adviser Stuart Spencer. Joining Duberstein will be Thomas Griscom, 37, who served as Baker's garrulous press secretary and alter ego on Capitol Hill. Griscom delayed returning to a lucrative public-relations job to assist his former boss during the transition period, and has apparently been persuaded to stay on in a position still to be determined, probably as a mixture of communications director and Baker strategist...