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...that could have led to a confrontation and his death? Could he have been about to make some revelation about match fixing from his time with South Africa (he left before Cronje's admissions) and Pakistan in a book he was writing? His wife and the book's co-author say that last idea is nonsense, that the book was about coaching techniques, not corruption. But former South African captain Clive Rice told a Cape Town newspaper he had "absolutely no doubt" that Woolmer was killed because of what he knew...
...accepted part of the discussion. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which will be released April 6 in Brussels, makes it official. "Adaptation to climate change is now inevitable," says Roger Jones of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia, a co-author of the IPCC report. "The only question is whether it will be by plan or by chaos." Jones, like the other contributors to the IPCC report whom I interviewed, speaks here only for himself...
Public discussion of global warming in the U.S. is years behind the rest of the world, and adaptation is no exception. "You can't adapt to a problem you don't admit exists," notes Richard Klein of the Stockholm Environment Institute, another IPCC co-author. The U.S. has only recently acknowledged global warming, while other countries are already taking concrete action to prepare for its impact. The Netherlands has some of the strongest flood defenses in the world and is making them stronger. Britain has doubled spending on flood and coastal-defense management, to about $1 billion a year. France...
Mark Hertsgaard is the author of Living Through the Storm: Our Future Under Global Warming, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Treating the First Casualty More than a century of efforts to protect New Orleans from flooding has left the city more vulnerable than ever. The coastline is shattered, and the land is sinking. Proposals for saving southern Louisiana could become a laboratory for U.S. coastal cities threatened by rising seas and stronger storms. [This article consists of a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] THINKING BIG Protecting New Orleans means putting more of everything between the city...
Loneliness is a running theme among pastors' wives, the piper's tune that drives them online. "What do you think is the No. 1 problem that preachers' wives have?" says Lynne Dugan, author of Heart to Heart with Pastors' Wives. "Friendship. Loneliness. You're surrounded by all these other people in the congregation, and you feel isolated." The Christian support group Focus on the Family concurs: loneliness is the top topic on its hotline for pastors' wives. After all, a PW can hardly discuss marital woes or child-raising tribulations with her husband's flock, and colleagues or other friends...