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...with four buddies -- no locks, no heat, cold water, expecting an eviction notice, in case he was getting comfortable (he heard the property has been sold for half a million). "There's no concept of the pain we go through," said Scott, a counterman who made it through -40 degreesF nights in a sleeping bag last year. "The town doesn't realize that the people who do their dishes and clean up after them have to live someplace...
...during the next 20 years, beaches will continue to retreat, diminishing the sand barriers that protect $2 trillion worth of insured property along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S. A study by Travelers Corp., based in Hartford, Connecticut, estimates that even a modest 0.9 degreesF increase in average global temperature by the year 2010 could produce a 20-day extension of the hurricane season, a 33% jump in hurricane landfalls in the U.S., an increase in the severity of the storms and a 30% annual rise in U.S. catastrophic losses...
PREDICTION: As warming heats the oceans, the area of water warm enough to produce hurricanes (water temperatures above 80 degreesF) will expand, producing longer and more intense storm seasons...
REALITY: The area of ocean where surface waters are warmer than 80 degreesF has already expanded one-sixth during the past 20 years...
...Aldrich Hazen Ames exchanged vows with Maria del Rosario Casas Dupuy in a charming little church nestled by a hill in Arlington, Virginia. It was the bridegroom's second marriage, the bride's first. The small knot of family members and friends, sweltering in the humid, 87 degreesF air, might have expected to be rewarded with a meal for their attendance. But after the ceremony, guests were offered only wine. Ames explained that he couldn't afford a fancy reception because the cost of his previous marriage's breakup had cleaned him out. Guests had no reason to doubt...