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...latitude as Afghanistan, you will have a sense of the terrain where the U.S. is now furiously searching for Osama bin Laden. The hills around Kabul, an area where bin Laden may be hiding, sit at nearly the same latitude as Phoenix, Ariz., though Kabul's elevation makes it colder, clearer and more exhausting to visit. At night this time of year, temperatures can fall into the 30s. During the day, the clear skies make a perfect canvas on which to watch for the telltale wisps of dust that follow moving soldiers or helicopters or armor. Just as the badlands...
...reconstructed a 1,500-year sequence of swings from wet to dry that eerily track the rise and fall of ancient civilizations. From glaciers on opposite sides of the world, some in the Andes, others in the Himalayas, he has built a strong case that the tropics were far colder 20,000 years ago, at the height of the last ice age, than most scientists thought possible...
...There are colder, calmer, more intelligent calculations to be made about what is gained and what is lost in a business like the execution of Timothy McVeigh. I think killing him gives us, on the whole, a loss. Killing him gave him power and attention he should have been denied...
...after Easter, and the first crocus shoots have ventured tentatively above the ground at the convent on Good Counsel Hill. This is Minnesota, however; the temperature is 23[degrees]F and the wind chill makes it feel far colder. Yet even though she's wearing only a skirt and sweater, Sister Ada, 91, wants to go outside. She wants to feed the pigs...
...reefs are dying off as the seas get too warm for comfort. Drought is the norm in parts of Asia and Africa. El Niño events, which trigger devastating weather in the eastern Pacific, are more frequent. The Arctic permafrost is starting to melt. Lakes and rivers in colder climates are freezing later and thawing earlier each year. Plants and animals are shifting their ranges poleward and to higher altitudes, and migration patterns for animals as diverse as polar bears and beluga whales are disrupted...