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...biggest questions in climate sensitivity has been the role of low-level cloud cover. Low-altitude clouds reflect some of the sun's radiation back into the atmosphere, cooling the earth. It's not yet known whether global warming will dissipate clouds, which would effectively speed up the process of climate change, or increase cloud cover, which would slow it down. (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...orientation within psychiatry. I wanted to offer a couple of clarifications: You state that those who met our criteria for risk of psychosis were 30 times as likely to develop the illness as those in the general population. Something got lost in translation in my interview with John Cloud; in fact, our research shows that such a person is more than 400 times as likely to develop psychosis. Also, the necessary critical mass of controlled, randomized clinical-trial treatment data has yet to be gathered, so it is premature to conclude that "it works." We still have a long...
...Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked officials to monitor the situation closely, and the relevant ministries and state governments are preparing contingency plans, including distributing drought-resistant seeds, encouraging farmers to grow crops that require less water, and even implementing cloud seeding programs to bring on rains. Experts expect tax breaks and price supports in the budget to be announced early next month. Roy of FICCI says the worst may yet be averted. "Last year the agricultural season was good and procurement was higher than normal," he says, "But the government can start taking preparatory steps such as imports...
...where you can drop in without an appointment to get a sore throat checked or a child's earache treated--all for as little as $60 a visit. Making health-care cheap, easy and available like this prevents small problems from getting big. Be sure to also read John Cloud's story about how we can head off psychological problems by treating them at the first sign of distress. We tend to think of psychiatric problems as either being genetic or occurring for unknown reasons, but Cloud's story shows that even illnesses like schizophrenia that have genetic origins...
...cloud, those enormous storage lockers of the Net that serve data - e-mail, pictures, video and your Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter pals - wherever you are. The problem is that all these data streams are increasingly hard to manage. I have one contact list of my friends and family on my iPhone; I can also switch to a directory of work associates. But then I've got a third list of friends at Facebook and yet another on LinkedIn. The promise of the Pre's WebOS is that it can take all those feeds and wirelessly combine them into one comprehensive...