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...models still aren't perfect. One major flaw, agree critics and champions alike, is that they don't adequately account for clouds. In a warmer world, more water will evaporate from the oceans and presumably form more clouds. If they are billowy cumulus clouds, they will tend to shade the planet and slow down warming; if they are high, feathery cirrus clouds, they will trap even more heat...
...Perhaps befitting a treasury secretary whose main perceived flaw was his inexperience managing the markets, the timing wasn't ideal. After vowing on March 4, with the stock at an all-time high of $39, not to sell, he's reversed course with the aluminum giant down to $34 - about what it was when he was nominated for the post Dec. 20. But the ultimate decision was, of course, a political one, and its goal was to boost the image of a highly touted FOG (friend of Greenspan) who's gotten off to a rocky start...
...when you get right down to it, the greatest flaw in this staging of The Pitchfork Disney is The Pitchfork Disney itself. The cast and crew find this problem to be largely surmountable, making it an off-beat and often disturbing success...
...happy and partake, except of the forbidden fruit, has always been a hard message to swallow," writes David Courtwright in Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World, in an attempt to summarize a potentially fatal flaw of human nature. Courtwright examines every historical detail of the development of drugs: their discovery, whether accidental or man-made, and their evolution and use in society. He cleverly toys with our present-day notion of the term "drug," examining a range of products that includes the illegal substances such as cocaine, marijuana, opium, as well as certain legalized substances...
...Because file-swapping, like nature, seems destined to always find a way. Because decentralized operations like Aimster, BearShare and Gnutella don't have Napster's tragic flaw - those 12 central servers - they're legally bulletproof...