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...issue of Science, they have nearly doubled their rate of flow over the past five years, to about 8 miles a year, dumping icebergs and meltwater into the already rising ocean faster than anyone expected. "In 1996 Greenland was losing about 100 cu km of ice per year," says Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, lead author of the study, which he presented at last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis, Mo. "This year it will lose more than twice as much." By comparison, he says, in 1996 Greenland...
...bedeviled by piracy and the online trading of free music. Levy realized that the industry had to figure out how to make money from digital music. If he could run another company, he told colleagues, he'd do things differently. That opportunity came in the autumn of 2001, when Eric Nicoli, chairman of EMI Group - the iconic British company whose superstars have ranged from the Beatles to Coldplay - offered him the top job at EMI Music. EMI was then a listing ship that had jettisoned more than 40% of its market value in one year, and had just issued...
...interesting political note: Eric Rignot, the lead author of the Greenland study and an accompanying report in Science magazine, works for NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (the glaciers? speedup was detected with a satellite). Just a couple of weeks ago, another NASA scientist named James Hansen claimed he?d been silenced by the agency for speaking out about evidence for global warming; the resulting furor led the NASA official who was involved to resign. Hansen?s commentary on the Greenland result appears here. And when Rignot was asked yesterday whether anyone at the agency had tried to shut...
...President of the Harvard Democrats Eric P. Lesser ’07 characterized each newspaper’s decision to publish the cartoons as completely different...
...store dangerous chemicals. “What I want to know is what the bottomline worst scenario could be,” said resident Carol Wienhaus last night at the Baldwin school where the meeting was held. “Could the building blow up?” Eric Martin, Harvard’s technical director of the Center for Nanoscale Systems, which will be the building’s chief occupant, attempted to minimize fears about the lab, saying that the activity there would occur on a very “human scale.” The scientist walked...