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...Another contributor to climatic change is the biosphere -- scientific jargon for the realm of all living things on earth. And it is the biosphere that threatens to tip the balance. To be sure, many of its effects are natural and as such have long been part of the climatic equilibrium. Termites, for example, produce enormous amounts of gas as they digest woody vegetation: a single termite mound can emit five liters of methane a minute. The methane escapes into the atmosphere, where it can not only destroy ozone but also act as a greenhouse gas in its own right. "Termites...
...welcome to this land of gorgeous adventure and the limber elbow," notes the 1938 Blue Guide to Cuba in summoning Americans to the nearby island. Nowadays, of course, the situation is different. For more than two decades, Cuba has been virtually off limits to U.S. citizens. Recently, however, TIME Contributor Pico Iyer was able to spend roughly three weeks as a tourist on Fidel Castro's island on two separate trips. His impressions...
...more likely, the editor adds, that he destroyed the missing chapters. Gerald Clarke, author of the upcoming biography Capote, points out that the writer set very high standards for himself. "He wanted to do for American high society what Proust had done for French society," says Clarke, a TIME contributor...
Jackson's need for respect still shows. He bristles at slights. At a recent fund raiser, a white contributor stood up to pledge a sum of money and lectured Jackson in hard language that he'd have to be more cooperative. Jackson swore back at him and told him to keep his money. Recalls Jackson: "He thought his cash gave him that right." Questions that call attention to his broad black support bring an edge of anger to his voice. He points to another candidate. "Does Mike Dukakis worry only about Greeks...
...ratings changes are highly significant in the televangelism industry, because viewers form what ministries term their "donor base." The faithful TV audience is a mainstay of ministry income, providing a steady flow of gifts -- commonly $10 or $20 a contributor. The names and addresses of donors are carefully preserved in computer banks and used in direct-mail donation pitches, another major source of ministry income. At the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries headquarters, for example, workers used to extract some $2.5 million in monthly donations from occasional donors. That amount has now been cut in half...