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...made chemicals are destroying the ozone layer, but so are natural ones. The 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption spewed ozone-unfriendly chlorine compounds into the air; researchers believe that these were partly responsible for the record-breaking ozone hole that opened up over Antarctica last year...
...does Soros spend his money in a region many consider to be a black hole? "I have a fascination with risk," he says in his heavily accented English. "It makes me feel alive. I can get bored just living." While that confession may explain his activities as a speculator and breakneck downhill skier, it is only part of what drives a man who is himself a refugee from the region...
...marriage. You could expect churches to say that, adults from many walks of life to somehow communicate that," notes Peter Benson, president of Minneapolis-based Search Institute, a research organization specializing in child and adolescent issues. "We went through a sexual revolution since the '60s that poked a major hole in that. And nothing has come along to replace it. What's responsible sexuality now? Does it mean no sex unless you're in love? No sex unless you're 21? No sex unless it's protected...
...come to grips with the fact that Burke and Berkery will never again don the crimson and black. Never again will Burke pester a player into submission and a turnover. Never again will Burkery tuck her stick under her arm in her favorite, undefendable move, sprint to the hole with opponents on each side and flip the ball into...
...Many a President and Prime Minister present themselves as the saviors of the ozone layer -- the leaders who rescued the fragile atmospheric shield that protects all living things from the sun's dangerous ultraviolet rays. This airbrushed view of history starts in 1985, when scientists realized that an ozone hole had opened over the South Pole -- the result of an atmospheric assault by man- made chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons, which are commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners. Soon after this disturbing surprise, the diplomats of the world were at the negotiating table. By 1987 they had reached a preliminary agreement...