Word: heatedly
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...flickering climate" (as it was dubbed by Taylor and his colleagues) would be a biblical disaster in today's crowded world. Droughts, heat waves, floods and plagues of pests would play havoc with crops, and rapid sea-level rise would inundate cities and destroy rich agricultural lands. "The Greenland finding was like a loud noise in the dark," says Taylor. Now he and dozens of other scientists have moved their search to Antarctica in an effort to follow up on this finding...
...vulnerable is the floating apron of sea ice that surrounds Antarctica. During the winter, this apron effectively doubles the continent's size, then in summer it shrinks 80%. The interaction of deep ocean currents and sea ice is crucial to the vast "conveyor belt" that redistributes the sun's heat around the globe. For all its importance, however, it is on average less than 2 ft. thick, and its stability depends on a precarious balance of factors ranging from air temperature to the salinity and temperature of the water...
...goals by placing the workers in federal jobs. "The devil is in the details, and we'll look at the details closely," said David Smith, public policy director for the AFL-CIO. "But it seems to be a step in the right direction." While Clinton?s initiative takes the heat off the unions, the jobs are nothing to hang your hat on: some 4,200 will be temporary positions helping the Commerce Department prepare for the 2000 census. Many others will be come through a government trainee program that hires entry-level workers into low-skill positions...
...keeps rising on Kilmer's career. Since his one-film reign as the Caped Crusader in the 1995 hit Batman Forever, the California-bred actor has built bridges and killed a lion in Ghost and the Darkness, played a thief with marital troubles in Heat, nearly outmannerismed Marlon Brando in The Island of Dr. Moreau and provided the voice of Moses for next year's Prince of Egypt, the first DreamWorks cartoon feature...
...been accused of sabotaging productions by making up his own dialogue and deliberately burning a cameraman's face with a lighted cigarette while shooting Moreau (Kilmer says it was an accident). Some directors praise the actor's craft and attitude. "Val gives you nuance piled on nuance," says Heat director Michael Mann. "I had a spectacular time working with him." But others hear the word Kilmer and reach for their revolver. "He isn't just a high-strung, difficult actor," says Joel Schumacher, who hired Kilmer for Batman Forever and apparently rued the day from...