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...report in Science magazine, works for NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (the glaciers? speedup was detected with a satellite). Just a couple of weeks ago, another NASA scientist named James Hansen claimed he?d been silenced by the agency for speaking out about evidence for global warming; the resulting furor led the NASA official who was involved to resign. Hansen?s commentary on the Greenland result appears here. And when Rignot was asked yesterday whether anyone at the agency had tried to shut him up, he said he?d been subjected to no such pressure...
...furor over Foster’s near-dismissal came just weeks before the new associate dean of undergraduate advising, Monique Rinere, is set to arrive on campus to take a post that may partly subsume Foster’s old role...
Even if it does, the broader issues raised by the current furor are certain to persist. To some, the dispute over the cartoons is a bellwether of a deepening divide between Western societies and Islam, a civilizational clash on issues as basic as the role of religion in society and the limits of liberty. Although the controversy has revealed degrees of cultural ignorance on both sides, it has been fueled by a brew of willful misunderstanding, manipulation and opportunism--all of which became combustible in the political climate that prevails in much of the Middle East today. In that sense...
...Swedish Wagnerian soprano strode on the Met's stage, and [was compared] to the 'incomparable' [Kirsten] Flagstad herself. The debutante: 41-year-old Birgit Nilsson, whose appearance in a new production of Tristan und Isolde touched off the kind of debut furor the Met's Wagnerians have not witnessed in a quarter-century ... A solid (5 ft. 8 in., 150 lbs.) and imposing woman, dramatic soprano Nilsson ... displayed a big, flashing, vibrant voice that galvanized her audience and conveyed an immediate sense of the turbulent passions that animate the role [of Isolde] ... Apparently a more severe critic of herself than...
...classified documents, according to the Post. Fingered by Human Rights Watch as likely hosts, E.U. member Poland and aspiring member Romania denied involvement. The Post said sites in Thailand and Cuba were shut down before its report appeared. The possibility of CIA-run prisons within Europe raised a furor on the Continent, and E.U. leaders have suggested participating countries could face sanctions...