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...physics decree that the planet has to radiate the same amount of energy back into space to keep the books balanced. The earth does this by sending infrared radiation out through the atmosphere, where an array of molecules (the best known is carbon dioxide) form a kind of blanket, holding outgoing radiation for a while and warming the surface. The molecules are similar to the glass in a greenhouse, which is why the warming process is called the greenhouse effect...
Washington had previously been skeptical of European initiatives, such as the plan to provide heating oil to cities controlled by the opposition, but now appears to have come around to a more subtle approach. "The blanket isolation of Serbia was only ever going to freeze the situation Iraq-style and actually consolidate Milosevic's grip on power," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "The new approach gives the opposition much greater leverage - by dangling an end to sanctions - to force a free and fair election. And if the opposition doesn't participate in an election...
...Wherever I live, I throw a blanket over any TV or computer screen not in use. Nobody 80 years ago had to deal with this ugly glass orb staring all day long, bloodshot with potential demands and static, so why should I? Why doesn't it bother people more...
Another first-year victim accused the University administration of not delivering the security he assumed would come along with college life. Although Harvard certainly isn't the real world yet, it's also not the safety blanket of our parents' household. Delinquents decorate residential houses with hateful graffiti, burglars quickly pedal away on unattended bikes, and several students have also been the victims of assault in this very "utopia" of a college campus...
...bought 400 more. The West didn't fully embrace shahtooshes until the 1980s, when fur went out and designers began dying the shawls in appealing colors. Before long, Park Avenue hostesses were selling them and Donna Karan was confiding to British Vogue that a shahtoosh was her security blanket. (Both she and Brinkley have since renounced shahtooshes...