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...updated, less extreme models might be small compared with the overall mass of the Earth, but that redistribution of mass would still cause the planet's gravity field to change slightly, which, in turn, would change the vector of its rotation. Think of the way water sloshes in a bucket, varying by how you swing or carry it. On a vast scale, that's what would happen if the WAIS collapsed, and the direction of the sloshing would hit the U.S. especially hard. Other areas that would take a particularly bad beating would be the coastlines bordering the southern Indian...
...this December all the more pressing. And if you need one more reason to hope we at last get warming under control, consider this: The new study did not even consider the sea-level impact of Greenland, glaciers and other ice-capped lands melting. Add that water to the bucket, and you ought to get things sloshing but good...
...sandwiches and chicken Vesuvio and scads of old-school offerings across the country, Jane and Michael Stern's 500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late refers not to a diminishing American landscape but to the limited number of eating opportunities in our life spans. It's a bucket list of restaurants serving local, often obscure dishes, ranked cheerily from best to almost best. The Sterns' nation is one with at least a few places still serving the Kentucky burgoo (thick stew) Kurlansky dug up in those WPA files, as well as South Carolina perloo (meat-and-rice dish...
...when a participating servicer changes the terms of a first mortgage, it will also have to reduce the interest rate on the second lien - to either 1% or 2%. The government will pay for half of the loss incurred by the loan owners, from the $50 billion bucket of money it had already pledged to housing-rescue programs. Mortgage servicers will be paid to make the change, and homeowners have their first-mortgage principal reduced as long as they stay current - by up to $250 a year for five years...
...Loans owned or guaranteed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac qualify; the two government-sponsored entities cover more than half of mortgages in the U.S. In the first three weeks of the program, Freddie Mac closed about 1,000 of these refinances, though "that's a drop in the bucket compared to what's expected," says Patricia McClung, a Freddie Mac vice president in charge of new products for single-family homes. "The lenders are still putting this in place." (Read a brief history of Fannie Mae and Freddie...