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Through generous alumni donations and fund-raising by individual houses, equipment has been upgraded to include carbon-fiber oars and electronic "cox-box" systems. The boats remain traditional in hull-shape and undifferentiated from one another, in order to avoid unfair advantages between the crews...
Researchers are gleaning other secrets from plant leaves preserved in the middens. At the end of the last Ice Age, for example, plant structures called stomata, which are used to process carbon dioxide, were far denser than they , are today. This suggests that the ancient atmosphere contained much less carbon dioxide. Middens have even more to reveal. The well-preserved plant and animal DNA in midden specimens promises to be a bonanza for genetic researchers...
Most disturbing has been the White House's resistance to any targets or timetables for cutting down on production of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, which may lead to global warming. The European Community wants to reduce CO2 emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000, but America's refusal to go along has effectively stymied the latest round of climate-change negotiations. Environmentalists, and even the conference organizers, argue that the U.S., as the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases, has an enormous responsibility to be cooperative on this issue. The Americans say that adopting specific goals...
...until there is indisputable evidence that serious damage is occurring, it may be much too late to halt the damage. Consider the widespread scientific predictions of global warming from the greenhouse effect. No one knows for sure that anything terrible will happen. ! But humanity has boosted the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by at least 25%. It is reckless to subject nature to such giant experiments when the outcome is unknown and the possible consequences are too frightening to contemplate...
...simple moment on the air or in print framing a tense or breathless or just plain corny "I love you," will cause me to sigh and exhale gallons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere...