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...guess I could say three. One, that we're already seeing effects of climate change of the last half-century in natural and human systems. It has been seriously changing habitats and affecting human systems. Secondly, the fact that we now know with a high degree of confidence that the climate of the future will be more variable. And there's not any good news in extreme events. You can say, 'It will be a little warmer and it might be good or bad, less ski time and more beach time.' You can rationalize it. But extreme events are inherently...
...guess who's going to receive a prize, you must know who's giving it. The Academy Awards are simply presents that 5,500 movie people?about half of them actors, many of them well beyond middle age, almost all of them working in Hollywood?give themselves. If the awards go to good movies (like Shakespeare in Love), that's nice. If they go to terrific ones (like Platoon), that's a coincidence. If they go to great ones, that's a mistake. Consider Citizen Kane: Orson Welles' masterpiece lost in 1942 to How Green Was My Valley...
...Everyone's best guess is that Dale Earnhardt, particularly - who parlayed an eighth-grade education into a multimillion-dollar empire, just by being the best at the thing he loved - would have wanted it that...
...Down the road, I guess there's bound to be some political fallout. The last major devaluation was in 1994, and a year or two later an Islamic party was elected to Parliament - in desperate times, people turn to desperate solutions - but there won't be any mass resignations or anything like that...
Otherwise, there will come a night when students are forced to guess whether a friend is sick enough to run the risk of going to UHS. And there will come a night when these students will guess dead wrong...