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...year, around a tenth of an inch, meaning it will take about a century to produce a 1-ft. rise. This is cause for concern, of course, but a 1-ft. rise in sea level over the course of a century or more is unlikely to prove fatal. A century, after all, is a long time--long enough to raise sea walls and breakwaters and to adapt in myriad other ways...
...levels. But when ocean temperatures rise too high, coral polyps become susceptible to a disease known as bleaching, so-called because it involves loss of the symbiotic algae that not only provide the polyps with essential nutrition but also color their tissues. Like a fever, bleaching is not necessarily fatal, but can be if ocean temperatures stay too high for too long. That's what happened seven years ago, when a prolonged heightening of sea-surface temperatures, triggered by the 1997-1998 El Niņo, ripped through the Indian Ocean like a forest fire. In some areas, coral mortality approached...
...artichokes, or a brother urinating on his sister's chart for a 4-H science project. Yet they must also preserve enough dignity to bring off sustained poetic speeches, including a climactic account of a midair battle between an eagle and a cat who doom each other to a fatal fall. The showiest part is the father (Eddie Jones), a brutal alcoholic who undergoes an overnight conversion, too late, into a sober and responsible man. His place as the family menace is then taken over by the son (Bradley Whitford), a sensible if none too bright handyman who becomes...
...does not agree with everything his leader says, but he cannot get over the way it is said: "His words expressed a wealth of ideas and a view of things and their connections that at times sounded as if they came from another world." And so on, revealing the fatal Teutonic weakness for romantic abstraction...
...suspected eating disorder many years ago may have led to the brain damage that landed Schiavo in the middle of a national debate. When the dust settles, I hope politicians and the media will turn their attention to the potentially fatal effects of eating disorders...