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...show could be called "The Library Bites Back." Just as the Internet is like a giga-library, full of useful information, this show is like a micro-Internet, full of stuff that's fascinating and pointless. Old, quaint erotica, Jack Kerouac's crutches, and an asbestos-bound copy of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's novel about book burning, are among the eccentric treasures. Then there's the anti-Nazi literature hidden in tea bags, above, which demonstrates one of the library's main advantages over the Web: it can prove such things existed. --By Belinda Luscombe
Along with noting the exceptional warmth in Massachusetts, NCDC also recorded the period from November to January as the nation’s warmest on record—4.3 degrees Fahrenheit above the 106-year mean...
TIME: How has your training gone? Menyoli: It's just terrible. I'm not happy with the way that we have no snow in Wisconsin. Yesterday, it was 55 [degrees Fahrenheit]. Man. Last year, we had so much snow. This is the wrong year to go to Winter Olympics! Maybe I should have done the Tour de France. Just so you know, almost 98% of my training has been on dry land. So I have trained only on roller skis, a piece of metal with two wheels at the end. The last 2% was when I was racing. That...
...bathing suit on underneath my clothes. This early morning in the middle of September is a balmy 45 degrees Fahrenheit. I have not jacket nor sweater. I hate myself as I shiver but the fog rising from the swimming pool creates this very cool swamp-like feel which makes me a little happier...
...Despite the obstacles facing a treaty on global warming, there is more evidence lately that the phenomenon is real. A report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel for Climate change says the earth is warming faster than at any time in the last millennium. Ground temperatures are 1.1 degree Fahrenheit higher than 100 years ago, and the pace could increase quickly in the next hundred years if nothing changes...