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...certainly looked that way last week as the atmospheric bomb that was Cyclone Larry--a Category 4 storm with wind bursts that reached 125 m.p.h.--exploded through northeastern Australia. It certainly looked that way last year as curtains of fire and dust turned the skies of Indonesia orange, thanks to drought-fueled blazes sweeping the island nation. It certainly looks that way as sections of ice the size of small states calve from the disintegrating Arctic and Antarctic. And it certainly looks that way as the sodden wreckage of New Orleans continues to molder, while the waters of the Atlantic...
...churns out more pollen as CO2 levels rise. Scientists have tied local spikes in asthma and allergy attacks to increases in molds and emissions from diesel engines. Apparently, the molds attach themselves to diesel particles, which deliver them more efficiently deep into the lungs. Add a plentiful helping of dust storms (from, for instance, the desertification of Mongolia or northern Africa) and a rise in drought-driven brushfires, and you have a made- to-order recipe for increasing respiratory distress worldwide...
...Kornfield Kounty made Owens appear part of the Nashville establishment, his music career was spent in defiance of what he considered country music's slick, string-heavy arrangements. As a popularizer of the Bakersfield sound, named for the California town that was a destination for Dust Bowl refugees like himself, Owens used honky-tonk vocals and rock-'n'-roll guitars to add edge to his songs. His 1988 duet with Dwight Yoakam, Streets of Bakersfield, was his last...
...could offer one piece of advice to the class of 2010, it would be this: take your science and math classes early. The longer your TI-86 is left to gather dust in your bottom desk drawer, the more difficult those problem sets and midterms will be. Oh, and don’t be fooled by the Cores with cushy-sounding names...
...that America is ready to spend on foreign battlegrounds, tax cuts for successful middle-aged professionals, and benefits for powerful interest groups, but not for the generations being raised today. The federal myopia of not finding new sources of revenue condemns young people’s interests to the dust. Just think of the utter failure of the No Child Left Behind program. The ceiling has been raised now, but not for America’s youth. If there is someone who needs Oprah’s Debt Diet, it is the men and women running our country. That?...