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...polar ice cap has shrunk by more than 20 percent since 1979. Over the past century, global temperatures have risen between 1.08 degress fahrenheit and 1.62 degress fahrenheit—a steep increase considering that during the last ice age the globe was only 9 degress fahrenheit to 15 degress fahrenheit cooler than today. Global warming has already caused sea levels to rise between four and eight inches, and experts predict that if the Greenland ice sheet melted, it would submerge significant parts of many coastal cities around the world , including nearby Boston...
...University of Palermo has given out its share of degress to mobsters' sons in recent years. Professor Giovanni Santangelo, vice-rector at the university, said the Mafia's move into the mainstream makes it both more invisible and more powerful. "The sons of mafiosi today, with rare exception, are all white-collar. They are programmed to be so." Santangelo says that in the past, university degrees were turned into law careers to provide a small army of legal defenders. "They've already got enough lawyers. They're diversifying," he says, into public fund administrators (to dip into billions of dollars...
Antonioni shot most of Th Red Desert with a telephoto lens, using various degress of magnification to achieve just the amount of flatness and focus that he wanted at any given moment. Antonioni, the consumate film-painter, has manipulated every device of film technology to assure that each tiny smudge will help create the exactly correct impression. He has challenged us to develop, not only our aesthetic, but our human sensitivity as well...
...ninety per cent of the student body...I refer to the heating and ventilating of Upper Widener. With a conscientiousness altogether in excess of the results achieved, the authorities or powers that be maintain throughout the library a temperature of seventyeight degrees Fahrenhelt. This every one knows is ten degress more than the maximum for comfortable living. Why it is considered permissible in the library I cannot imagine. Yet the fact remains...
...return to the example of the girls receiving their degress from Radcliffe today, each of them has her own problems as well as her own hopes, and each has to find out how best to work through the problems to realize the hopes. But the commencement speaker is peculiarly unsuited for actually giving the kind of advice which is most needed at that hour when the newly graduated are about to put their knowledge to the test in the untried world. Even if he happens to be the rather fatherly type, his task demands that he stay upon the platform...