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...frustrated by the ignorance of my fellow Americans who targeted Lin with racial slurs [Jan. 25]. Basketball is a multicultural sport, and as Americans, we need to grow past the ignorance of racial judgment. Lin has the potential to become a leader in his sport and make an impact on the world...
...that the growth curve gradually bends upward, meaning the regrowth was accelerating - a hint, anyway, that controlled experiments involving enriched CO2 levels were indeed a reasonable if rough proxy of what would likely happen in the real world as CO2 levels mount. Whether the forests' growth spurt might actually impact global warming by absorbing and storing more carbon is doubtful. While it's true that more trees suck up more carbon, they also produce more dark, heat-absorbing foliage, which somewhat counteracts the benefit. In addition, one extra tree per acre per year doesn't make much of a dent...
...think it was a little difficult for him, when he started out, to really understand what impact he could have competing in the weight three years down the line, because he didn’t have much experience with it,” Erickson says. “It’s not something as easy as picking up a football and just throwing it; it’s a very unnatural event...
...further south and west the drivers make their announcements in Spanish. “Cinco minutos aquí.” Sometimes we would pass a truck on a country road with the truck coming in our direction and the bus would vibrate a little with the shadow of impact...
...powder under cobalt skies and are at least 1,000 m long - often double that. Views stretch out for hundreds of kilometers in every direction. In the early days, many of the bowls, chutes and peaks had never been touched or even seen by humans, let alone felt the impact of skis or boards. And there is still no sign of global warming except perhaps to the eyes of the most knowledgeable guides and locals, who say that even in this frozen wonderland there has been some loss...