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...colors of products merely top off the vast improvements that have been made in the underlying functional design. Moreover, consumers demand that products function conveniently, safely, ecologically and obviously. We scoff at a microwave oven with a complex 50-button console. If you can't figure out how to heat a cup of cocoa without reading the instructions, it's the manufacturer who is stupid. A fuchsia cell phone might be pretty, but a cell phone that does not require a manual--now that's truly beautiful. KATRINA GALWAY Washington...
...Malta, surveyed 17 countries' birth statistics. After separating them into three climatic bands, he determined that the coldest group had the lowest rate of male births and the hottest group had a consistently high proportion of baby boys. Researchers are still examining the results to figure out why heat affects gender...
Paleontologist Peter Ward and astronomer Donald Brownlee agree. In a provocative new book, Rare Earth, they maintain that in most places beyond Earth, radiation and heat levels are so high, life-friendly planets so scarce and the cosmic bombardments--like the one that killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago--so severe that the only life-forms that might make it would be bacteria-like critters living deep in the soil. The odds against technologically advanced societies, they argue, are astronomical...
Consider the billions of tons of carbon dioxide that are emitted every year in the course of our daily life. Driving a car, switching on a light, working in a factory, fertilizing a field all contribute to the atmosphere's growing burden of heat-trapping gases. Unless we start to control emissions of CO2 and similar compounds, global mean temperatures will probably rise somewhere between 2[degrees]F and 7[degrees]F by the end of the next century; even the low end of that spectrum could set the stage for a lot of meteorological mischief. Among other things...
...never used a microwave, I have complete faith that he or she would quickly figure out a way to safely operate it. It's nowhere near as difficult as derivatives or Kant's theory of the self. Yet the Harvard administration seems to not believe that we can heat up a bowl of soup without burning down the whole campus...