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...Pliocene, say Fedorov and his colleagues, is that an initial bout of global warming led to severer hurricanes - a distinct possibility supported by recent research published in Science and Nature Geoscience - and severer hurricanes led to more warming. Although most of us think about hurricanes in terms of their impact on the land, they also wreak havoc on the sea, churning the water like giant mixers and forcing warm surface waters deeper. When that occurs in the central Pacific, "the ocean responds by sending that water to the East," where it rises again close to the equator, says...
...would be difficult to hack away at the funds needed to wage the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet military spending today is 41% more than it was in 1998, not even counting the billions earmarked for the wars. The cost of a standing military, after eliminating inflation's impact, has soared to $459,000 per trooper - 78% higher than during President Reagan's defense buildup, 95% higher than in 1989 and three times the Vietnam-era average, according to a recent study by the liberal-leaning Project on Defense Alternatives. (See video of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan...
...playing its cards differently. "I think it's indisputable that there was significant domestic pressure inside of Egypt [in 2005], and that the United States under the Bush Administration, and Europe, both sort of supported those demands in Egypt for freer and fairer elections - and that had an impact," says Michele Dunne, editor of the Arab Reform Bulletin at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The first round of the parliamentary elections in 2005 constituted the freest and most transparent election Egypt has ever experienced. But, Dunne adds, "Up till now, I see very little interest on the part...
Pratt rejected breaching confidentiality and denied any political motivation after commentators noticed that her charity's website carries endorsements from Conservative leader David Cameron - who has called for an inquiry into the Brown bullying allegations - and Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe, also listed as a patron of the helpline. The impact of her comments was undermined as her account of the number and source of the alleged calls changed in successive interviews, and four patrons of the charity, including Widdecombe, resigned. Mandelson, returning to the fray, suggested that Labour's opponents might have directed journalists to the organization. "This whole affair...
...just how badly could these assaults on Brown's character impact on his chances of victory? "If the story carries on and you get a new and fixed public sense of Brown, that he's a bully and he's emotionally out of control, that could be immensely damaging," says Peter Kellner, the president of the polling organization YouGov. The Prime Minister's best hope of retaining his job, adds Kellner, is that voters see Brown "as passionate - and better that than somebody who's bland...