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...unlike the low probability of losing your house to fire, we know that the Arctic is warming. And this study offers an inkling of what it could cost us - if we don't act. "No matter how you slice it, these are big numbers," says Goodstein. "The Arctic air conditioner is breaking down in a big way. Half-measures won't work. If we can get carbon emissions down, we can retain more of this function...
...significance of the God particle is as old as time itself: scientists believe that at the moment of the Big Bang, when the universe was born, there existed a moment of incandescent beauty - of perfect symmetry - in which all things and all forces were in absolute agreement. The universe's four forces - the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism and gravity - had yet to differentiate, and the tiny particles that carried those forces had yet to emerge as separate entities. As the explosion cooled and its contents scattered, complexity engulfed the universe, splitting its symmetry asunder - a cosmic parallel to Adam...
...look at them and think, 'Well, if they can run a marathon ...,' " she says. "It spreads like wildfire." The 23-year-old ran her first marathon not long after moving across the country to New York City for her first postcollege job and is now training for her third big race. (Disclosure: She's a friend I met while studying abroad a few years ago, and her status updates are what alerted me to this trend.) (See the best social-networking applications...
...contrast, Obama has managed to pass the stimulus; is working on a bipartisan solution to DADT, which looks set to pass with relatively little controversy; and passed health care reform after a yearlong struggle. Whatever the bill's faults, health care is a big win. Indeed, many in the Obama Administration argue that all Dems would be far worse off right now if health care had failed...
...tell if the health-reform-inspired wave of hostility to the Democrats will fade by November or if the Republicans will manage to keep the issue alive. For Democrats, the challenge now is to turn the nation's attention back to other concerns, like jobs. That points to another big difference between 1994 and 2010: in 1994 the unemployment rate was just under 6%; right now it's nearly...