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Next to the 1000-page IPCC assessment, the last few weeks were also filled with media reports of anecdotal evidence--extreme weather events that are projected to become more frequent as overall temperatures rise. Most notably, Mt. Kilimanjaro's ice cap, which has towered for millennia over Kenya and Tanzania's plains, is now melting and is expected to disappear within 15 years. Kilimanjaro is not alone in losing its snows--glaciers from the Alps to the Andes will disappear at a frightening rate--but the Kilimanjaro ice cap has been a valuable source of water for the surrounding areas...
...group. As one official put it, Tung was walking a "razor's edge," trying to keep mainland backers happy while avoiding comments that might suggest the city's vaunted autonomy and rule of law were crumbling. The situation is so precarious that even Democratic Party leader Martin Lee, a frequent critic of Tung, acknowledges the Chief Executive's dilemma. "I don't think Tung is in a position right now to completely cave-in and ban the group," Lee says. "If he throws one person in prison, there will be more. It's a big headache...
...Frequent travelers routinely book the first flight of the day to avoid the traffic jams that only get worse as the day progresses at the country's most congested airports. Also, flying out on an airline's early-morning plane means being freed from waiting for a connecting plane to arrive or for a new crew to make it in from Detroit. An added bonus: the parking spaces next to the terminal are empty...
...more important than friendship between a man and a woman. Duller but more important." Bing's orotund tone places ironic quote-marks around the speech, but in most movies he lives up to the sentiment. He has few hot smooch scenes; you rarely see him smolder with lust; his frequent come-ons to women are vamps, comic or ironic improvs on the required movie theme of heterosexual romance...
Using this standard allows for the more accurate assessment of drinking on campus. The Crimson staff found that about the same proportion (45 percent) of Harvard students binge drink as the national average, but that only one quarter of these students are frequent binge drinkers--half of the national average...