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...wetlands study darkened the picture further. Marshes in Alaska and northern Canada are natural sinks for mercury, which chemically adheres to damp peat and readily converts to the methyl form. That is not a problem as long as the mercury stays put. But increasingly frequent droughts--a likely consequence of global warming--have led to increasingly frequent wildfires, causing wetlands to release centuries' worth of collected mercury in one toxic breath. "There's mercury that's been accumulating since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution," says ecosystems ecologist Merritt Turetsky of Michigan State University, who has been studying the problem...
...moderate-to-high risk of earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes, wildfires, hurricanes, flooding, wind damage or terrorism, according to an estimate calculated for TIME by the Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute at the University of South Carolina. We increasingly live in dense, coastal cities and consequently get hit by more frequent, more costly disasters...
...President (the "nicest guy in the world," according to a manager at the Clintons' local deli, Lange's), being in a store when a Clinton came in (the duo has visited nearly all of Chappaqua's shops and restaurants), or just watching Bill stroll by on one of his frequent walks (always with Secret Service agents alongside and often with the Clinton dog, Seamus). Both Clintons play public figures everywhere they go: gracious, attentive, approachable. That's probably why - even among those angered by the Clintons' politics or infidelity in the White House - in Chappaqua there is nary...
...date that coincides with a spike in in-flight anxiety. Or maybe not. Maybe no one wants to reminded just now of the underlying fragility of our travel arrangements. But its core audience - teen-agers out for a good time on a Saturday night - are not, as a rule frequent fliers, and I suspect that they'll have some fun with Snakes on a Plane. The director, David R. Ellis, is not exactly Alfred Hitchcock - he's often messy in his stagings - but as his picture rattles along its thrill-a-minute flight plan he does manage to induce...
...label that stuck to him ? "sick dirty Lenny" ? had its drawbacks. Frequent arrests, for example. But the advantage of being outspoken was that he could speak about anything. Most comedians marched to a very conventional tune. A few, like Sahl and Dick Gregory, specialized in political satire; a few others, like Redd Foxx and Belle Barth, did "blue" material, at least by 50s standards. (Today it would barely be aqua.) Lenny's satire was more ferocious than Sahl's, his language saltier and more freewheeling than Foxx's. This combination of topic and tone, and the fact that nobody else...