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GLOBAL-WARMING SCENARIOS ARE MOSTLY GLOOM and doom. As humans burn more fossil fuels, more carbon dioxide (CO2) enters the atmosphere. CO2 traps the sun's heat, causing a warmer climate, rising sea levels and drastic changes in weather. The one bright spot seemed to be that because plants "breathe" CO2, they might be expected to thrive...
...radar image of the storm. At first it was even difficult to be frightened. I had never been through a hurricane before, and I had no idea what was about to happen. We watched with a sense of imminent doom as Andrew blasted toward Miami at a clip of 17 miles per hour...
...week. "Job security is important to everybody," he said. But the strike also came at an awkward time for the automaker. With stocks of the best-selling Saturn nearly depleted, GM had been losing between $1 million and $2 million a day, which still might doom the company to its eighth consecutive quarter in the red, the longest dry spell in corporate history...
...even doom has nuances, and like Africa it has a thousand layers of meaning. The "margin" of one thing is also the center of something else. Africa has its own "centers," its resources of vitality and resilience. It operates by its own inner dynamics and metaphysics. Africa looks hopeless, but it is not. In many ways the continent is headed in the right direction for the first time in centuries. Real changes for the better are occurring. Africa is evolving African solutions...
...uncertainty over the outcome of the September 20 referendum in France on the Maastricht treaty, which is supposed to lay the basis for a European Union. French voters could decide they do not like the high interest rates dictated by Germany and vote non on the treaty. That would doom it and change the shape of post-cold war Europe...