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...released if warming continues - a positive feedback cycle that would accelerate climate change. But the impacts of a hotter Arctic go beyond that. The WWF study found that as the Arctic warms, it could alter weather patterns beyond its borders, affecting temperature and rain patterns in Europe and North America. "The Arctic is the global refrigerator for the climate system," says Sommerkorn. "Change it, and you might see even more dry summers in the Southwest and wetter winters in the Mediterranean." It's another reminder that in this season of climate change politics, we're running out of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Studies of the Arctic Suggest a Dire Situation | 9/5/2009 | See Source »

...never heard music in my head and then I moved to New York City and started hearing it one day,” Furst says.Even for those who had focused on music during college, most had other plans. Cruz had a job lined up in Latin America after college and always thought he would do something with Latin American politics. Instead, he showed up in New York with his guitar and little else planned.Though Harvard’s resources could let them make music, there was no guidance in how to turn it into a career. “Were...

Author: By Rebecca J. Levitan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Let Them Rock | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...than they do the boxing genre. Almost instantly, Gardener crystallizes the already-swelling malaise taking hold of the national consciousness in the decline of the 60s counterculture, mediated through the lens of its physical analogy: the American Frontier. It’s at this very moment, in 1969, when America is faced with the choice of acknowledging its limits, be they the shores of the Pacific, the streets of Chicago or the defoliated landscape of Vietnam. But Bill Tully, like so many others, is unwilling to look.Only the most gifted storyteller can say all of this without saying...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Frontiers of American Tragedy | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...Berg’s close family and longtime fans, including “All in the Family” creator Norman Lear and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kempner communicates the determination and warmth that made Berg, as one 1930s poll revealed, the second-most popular woman in America (just behind Eleanor Roosevelt). Although her show was clearly about a Jewish family, the Goldbergs’ laughter and struggle were accessible and comforting to immigrants throughout the nation, even in the depths of the Great Depression. The humor found in stumbling over English words, the hope of a better...

Author: By Emily S. Shire, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

ArmorGroup North America • State Department personnel stationed in Kabul who are guarded by Animal House-emulating employees of will not be reassured by these photos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

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