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...Instead of seeking ways to mitigate the effect of greenhouse gases, policymakers should attack the problem head-on by regulating industry and reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The solution to global warming is to stop putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Anything short of this is an imperfect and flawed approach that will ultimately fail. Alan Foreman, CAMBRIDGE, MASS...
...find themselves in the wilderness of the rough. The Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia is different: being in Southern Baptist country, it gives golfers the benefit of the doubt. Its wide, generous fairways mean the outcome is rarely predestined from the tee. What matters is the endgame - the approach shot and, most crucially, the chips and putts on its devilishly slick greens. This is not to say that Augusta doesn't provide a stern test of a golfer's resolve - a particularly demanding three-hole stretch is known as Amen Corner - it's just that this test is predicated...
Augusta National responded by lengthening almost all of its holes, but it did so with a focus on maintaining what the tournament committee calls the "shot value" of each hole. According to this strategy, holes on which golfers would have hit a 6-iron approach shot 40 years ago were lengthened so as to demand the same club for the approach today. Butch Harmon, Woods' former swing coach, says this fixation on "shot value" robbed the tee shots on several holes of their nuance, since golfers do not need to draw or fade the ball with their drivers when they...
...backspin, which can cause balls to scurry off Augusta's treacherous greens like startled mice. "The rough is so short and the greens so challenging that players can potentially use it to their advantage," he says. "You can hit intentionally into the rough to take the spin off your approach. Players are comfortable with that...
...band of pirates takes a more radical approach. Over the last few months Watson pursued Japanese whalers across the South Pacific in the Steve Irwin, a boat named after the Australian crocodile hunter, who had planned to join a Sea Shepherd voyage before his death. At the height of the chase, Sea Shepherd activists boarded a Japanese whaling vessel, sparking an international crisis that only ended when Australian diplomats negotiated the activists’ release. In the aftermath Australia’s generally anti-whaling government sternly warned Sea Shepherd to not repeat the stunt, and moderate conservation groups distanced...