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Baliunas and Soon are researchers competing for funds from a limited number of sources and can hardly be blamed for accepting oil money. But regardless of whether the technical objections raised by other scientists are really legitimate, a small hitch remains. Baliunas and Soon’s findings bear a curious resemblance to their financial backers’ probable agenda. After all, look at what the oil industry got: A paper that can be used to discredit the half-century of evidence climatologists have accumulated suggesting that human industrial pollution is quickly warming the earth. And, even better, since...
...full of meat, they threw it on a grill and shared it with their neighbors. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked his constituents to give rides to others if they had extra space in their cars, and people heeded his appeal; never before have I seen so many hitch-hikers picked up in Queens. Ordinary citizens devoted hours in the heat to directing traffic and preventing a clogged chaos. Others set up tables and served water along routes where many dehydrated commuters were walking. The blackout gave people the opportunity to feel good about themselves and those around them...
...graphic prompted an e-mail from Kevin Cox, a computer technician who works on the B1s at Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City, S.D., The crew enjoyed the graphic and asked for some reprints. I said yes. Then I asked Kevin if he could arrange for me to hitch a ride. To my surprise, the folks at Ellsworth said maybe...
...planning to WeddingItaly by Punto di Fuga, an Udine-based company that handles 200 weddings a year and arranged the paper work, ceremony, photography, flowers and reception. When Ramsay and Tjalsma were married last month in Certaldo's 12th century governor's palace, the wedding went off without a hitch. It was presided over by a representative of the town's mayor - assisted by a translator. Fewer Europeans are getting married now than a generation ago, but when they do wed, more of them, like Ramsay and Tjalsma, are looking for unusual ways to say I do. It used...
...speech went off without a hitch, except for several interruptions by students holding pogo-stick races in the aisles...