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...home, bringing with him a leadership corps from exile and setting up the Palestinian Authority as envisaged by the accord. But the top positions in Arafat's administration all went to returning exiles and Arafat cronies, while the local leaders who'd earned their stripes and scars in the heat of the intifada, and often did time in jail for it, were mostly overlooked or incorporated in subordinate roles in the Palestinian Authority. In many cases, it is those same shunned local leaders who are today once again running things on the seething streets of the West Bank and Gaza...
...trouble, of course, is that most of the heat flows up the chimney. Count Rumford's 18th century fireplace design (shallower, built to throw more heat back into the room) helps a bit, but the basic idea remains Paleolithic. There have been times during subzero winter power blackouts when we have pulled a futon next to the fire and slept there, curled up as close as we could get to the heat without igniting the blankets. On the other hand, the wood stove in the kitchen radiates efficient gemutlichkeit--a cloying heat, like the house on a Thanksgiving afternoon that...
...Thursday, the Associated Press, which managed to scrounge up a summary of the as yet unreleased study, outlined the distinguished scientists' grim prediction in no uncertain terms: If greenhouse gases continue to trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere, we can expect average global temperatures to rise between 2.7 degrees and 11 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century. That kind of increase, scientists contend, means cataclysmic changes in our environment: Think melting of the polar ice caps, flooding and drought...
...fourth debate. Yes, the jokes are a little lame, and self-serving in their own way: Politicians do these dinners for two reasons: One, to take the sting out whatever foible's been dogging them lately. Two, to show the donor elite and the press that amid the heat and vitriol of this close-fought campaign, they can be good sports. But is that revelation only for the sophisticated ears of the moneybags and upper-crusters? Don't the voters deserve a little taste of this sort of thing on commercial-free primetime...
...much better system would be to use a sliding scale, so that rather than always being either on at full-blast or completely off, the heat could be operating at a lower level when the temperature is close to 70 degrees. This way, there would be many fewer sudden changes to the system, which would be much more energy-efficient, not to mention easier on the heater itself...