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...Most familiar, of course, is what we have done to the carbon cycle. Because we are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere much faster than land and seas can reabsorb it, the accumulating gas is trapping heat and upsetting the climate. The result is not only rising seas and fiercer storms but also a possible repositioning of the world's ecosystems as the boundaries of forests or grasslands shift. Many animal and plant species may not be able to adjust to sudden changes in their habitats...
...There are more students taking courses than five years ago, two years ago," he says. "The stakes are a little higher, the competition is fiercer...
Harvard has advanced to the ECAC semifinals next Saturday at Brown's Meehan Auditorium, where the competition will be much fiercer than it was in the first round. The three other teams still alive in the conference tournament--No. 1 seed Brown (22-3-3, 19-2-3), No. 3 seed Dartmouth (19-10-0, 17-7-0) and No. 5 seed Northeastern (22-8-3, 15-6-3)--have all either beaten or tied the Crimson this season...
...rates and slam its foot on the brake. Bill Clinton adapted; he cut spending and the deficit, thus handing over the economic reins to Alan Greenspan. Not a bad strategy, except that honest liberals must now admit that inequality is greater, the safety net is thinner, and capitalism is fiercer after two terms of Democratic occupancy of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue than it was before. Clinton trumped the Republicans. But market power trumped government power. And that mattered more...
...were 5[degrees]C (10[degrees]F) cooler than they are now, and there was a series of incidents during which global temperatures changed as much as 10[degrees]F in a matter of decades. If that were to happen now, expanding oceans might flood coastlines and generate fiercer storms. And as weather patterns changed, some places could get wetter and some dryer, and the ranges of diseases could expand. Civilization has seen--and endured--such changes in the past, but they may come much more swiftly this time, making it harder to withstand the jolts...