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...Durbin Mounds, Oklahoma, U.S. Dick Cheney is the poster boy for the "shoot first, think later" approach, whether it involves war, torture or just plain getting even. James B. Morin Guasti, California, U.S. Grim News from Greenland "Has the meltdown begun?" [Feb. 27] reported the discovery that Greenland's glaciers are melting faster than anyone expected. That is more proof of global warming, and the resulting rise in sea levels makes the immediate impact of climate change worse than anticipated. The glaciers are also receding at Glacier National Park, Montana. We are having milder winters in the Midwest, and tropical...
...Meltdown Begun?" [Feb. 27] reported the discovery that Greenland's glaciers are melting faster than anyone expected. That is more proof of global warming, and the resulting rise in sea levels makes the immediate impact of climate change worse than anticipated. The glaciers are also receding at Glacier National Park, Mont. We are having milder winters in the Midwest, and tropical frog species are disappearing. What more evidence does anybody need...
...short, the remains that came to be known as Kennewick Man were almost twice as old as the celebrated Iceman discovered in 1991 in an Alpine glacier, and among the oldest and most complete skeletons ever found in the Americas. Plenty of archaeological sites date back that far, or nearly so, but scientists have found only about 50 skeletons of such antiquity, most of them fragmentary. Any new find can thus add crucial insight into the ongoing mystery of who first colonized the New World - the last corner of the globe to be populated by humans. Kennewick Man could cast...
...something like, say, quantum physics - it?s hard to make accurate predictions about what will happen. So it came as no surprise, in a sense, that climate observers announced a huge surprise yesterday at the American Association for the Advancement of Science?s annual conference, in St. Louis: the glaciers of Greenland, which carry ice from the interior out to the sea, have gone on a tear. They?re flowing, on average, about twice as fast as they were a decade ago - and even back then, says glacier expert Julian Dowdeswell, of the University of Cambridge, "I was telling...
...confined to the travel pages of web portals: just ask anyone from Harvard, Massachusetts. Or Harvard, Arkansas. Or California. Or Floriada, Idaho, Ilinois, Iowa, or Maryland: there are municipalities named Harvard in eleven states. That doesn’t include Colorado’s Mount Harvard, or the Harvard Glacier in Alaska. The Harvard name appears throughout the history of the United States, and recurs in newspaper headlines with unrivalled frequency. In the past six months, the Harvard name has appeared in roughly two-and-a-half times as many newspaper headlines as that of rival Yale, and nearly five...