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...members from 17.5 million bbl. a day to 16 million in hopes that lower supply would mean higher prices. At the time, the group predicted confidently that as soon as oil refiners began building their stockpiles for winter, the global glut would evaporate. But aside from January's arctic blast across Europe and North America, winter temperatures have been moderate in the Northern Hemisphere. Instead of stocking up, oil buyers have waited for prices to fall still further...
...record-setting arctic cold wave gripped much of the country from the Midwest to Florida last week, the plight of the nation's homeless once again became painfully apparent. Authorities and private citizens scrambled against nature's bitter blast to protect those least able to protect themselves. Even as the U.S. economy booms, so, perversely, does the number of homeless. Experts put the figure as low as 300,000 and as high as nearly 2 million. Certainly the homeless have become more noticeable as they shamble through bus depots, sleep on steam grates and occasionally die in public. The nation...
...seriously lacking in 'religious submission' " and must publicly recant their view or be expelled from their orders.* Of the four priests and brothers among the 97 signers, three have recanted. But so far not one of the sisters has backed down. On the contrary, at a strategy meeting in arctic Chicago last week, they considered an array of countermeasures: another ad soliciting support for free speech, a series of nationwide prayer services, counterhearings to coincide with the bishops' planned hearings in Washington in March on the role of women. "This is a pivotal moment in the history of the church...
...heard a loud bang, then a deafening roar, and for a few seconds I could see a reddish-yellow flame streaking across the sky," recalled Bear Hunter Herman Sotkajarvi, a resident of the northernmost reaches of Norway, well above the Arctic Circle. "The house quivered, windows rattled, and my three dogs started barking." What Sotkajarvi apparently saw in the early afternoon of Dec. 28 was a runaway cruise missile fired from either a submarine or a ship during Soviet naval maneuvers in the Barents Sea, northeast of the Scandinavian Peninsula. Norwegian radar tracked the supersonic object as it crossed...
...greenhouse effect. It has long been suspected that increasing carbon dioxide levels would melt the polse ice caps leading to massive costial flooding and seriously disruption agricultural production, but recent studies have turned a possibility into a probability. The greenhouse effect has already caused glacier movements in the Canadian Arctic and Antarctica. Still, more foreboding is that recent studies of the Ice Age 40,000 years ago suggest that the last glacier, movement coincided with a 50 percent rise in carbon dioxide levels. Given that the carbon dioxide level has risen by over 25 percent in the past 25 years...