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...Space Studies and one of the most prominent proponents of the greenhouse theory, was not at all swayed by the new study. "Even in a warming world," he says, "you'd still expect on a statistical basis to see local variation -- one region cooler than the average, another hotter. If you look at an area as small as the U.S., then natural variability is very large. But % it's the global average that is important." While other climate experts are slower to make concrete predictions, Hansen's studies of global temperatures suggest that the warming trend has already begun...
...global warming will not be uniformly bad around the world. After all, Canada would not complain if the productive corn-growing lands of the U.S. Midwest shifted north across the | border, and the Soviet Union might welcome a warmer, more hospitable Siberia. But while the broad outlines of a hotter world are easy to draw, more specific projections are riddled with uncertainty, since the regional weather patterns that would prevail are largely unpredictable. If Canada becomes much dryer than it is now, for example, higher temperatures will not help much...
...anything, Angola's civil war is getting hotter. With Cuban aid, Angolan forces last week pushed an offensive into the heartland of Savimbi's Ovimbundu tribesmen. The troops captured three towns in central Angola, including Savimbi's birthplace of Munhango...
That kind of surface -- like the banks of vending machines, the glossy coffee shops, the state-of-the-art museum tickets -- gives Seoul at times the look of a rough-and-ready version of Japan. But everything is hotter here; the summers are warmer, the people more hot-blooded, and the local food has a garlicky tang far removed from the cool elegance of sushi. Korean pride is no less full of flavor. One of the most elegant museums in the city, approached through solemn wooden gates, is devoted not to Buddhist statuary, or to modern painting, or even...
...Italian police last week began investigating rumors that the statue was taken from an illegal excavation in Sicily. Getty officials countered that they had attempted to check the same rumors last year -- to no avail. The case grew hotter when Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, claimed that the statue had been taken from the Sicily site to Geneva, then sold to the Getty by an English dealer. Museum officials called Hoving's allegations "purely speculative...