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...that warm to be very bad indeed. There isn?t any new science in the study, titled ?Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change?: it?s a summary of research presented at a conference of the same name last year. But it does point out that the temperature need only rise about halfway to the worst-case scenario for such catastrophic events as the melting of the Greenland ice cap, or, worse yet, the West Antarctic ice sheet. The latter event could raise sea levels a whopping 5 meters, or about 16 ft., which could drown huge swaths of low-lying coastland...
...English majors, Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. has for nearly 2 1/2 centuries been the least-read classic in the canon. The novel is such a wildly, willfully discursive history of its hero and narrator (whose birth does not occur until more than halfway through the book) that the notion of turning it into a 94-min. film raises two stubborn questions...
...would continue to baffle him for months to come—is how his words that day would emerge as some of the most explosive ever uttered in the ivory tower.The notes Summers had prepared were scattered with underscores and marginal annotations, arrows pointing from one section to another halfway down the page, a map of his mind at work. At the very top, Summers had written, “women underrepresented,” and next to that an arrow pointing to the one-word question motivating his remarks: “why?”A photocopy...
...thousands of books out there about money, and I am basically trying to viciously mock them. They don't seem to do a lot of good. Look at how many have been sold. Theoretically, every living human being should be at least a millionaire if these books were even halfway effective...
...hard to know which way he's going. He has been a Communist, a Ba'athist and a liberal-secular democrat; these days, he represents the Shi'ite-fundamentalist Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, which, like Jafaari's Dawa Party, is beholden to Tehran. Halfway through last year, Mahdi told TIME he was about to bolt from SCIRI and form his own party. He changed his mind-likely because he knows he has no grassroots support or street cred of his own. As prime minister, he would be little more than a puppet in the hand...