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...pier off the airport island, justa cross the lagoon from Malé, is a tide gauge that has been beaming data to the University of Hawaii Sea Level Center in Honolulu since 1989. The good news, says the center's director, oceanographer Mark Merrifield, is that sea levels around Malé do not appear to be rising quite as fast as in many other places in the world. That may sound odd, but the simple expansion of water as it warms is complicated by local wind and current patterns. Beyond that, changes in the height of land masses as soils compact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Waters Are Rising | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Horse Heaven is basically a book of vignettes that only occasionally interlock, and the real challenge for the reader is keeping all those characters, human and equine, straight. There is Justa Bob, a good-natured gelding who knows how to race, and Epic Steam, a stallion badly in need of a gelding. There is Buddy Crawford, a sleazy trainer who cares more about winning than about the horses (even after he finds Jesus), and Farley Jones, who adheres to The Tibetan Book of Thoroughbred Training ("Do not see any fault anywhere...Do not hanker after signs of progress"). There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Fine Day at The Races | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...speed and quickness allowed him to shutdown two First Team All-Ivy midfielders,Princeton's Josh Sims and Brown's Jed Dewick.Dewick was held to one goal on a man-up play,while Sims was similarly contained, tallying justa goal...

Author: By Owen Breck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Lax Snubbed By NCAA Selectors | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...What makes Feaster so good is that is not justa set option player--she's just one of theoptions," Blair said...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. B-Ball Vies for Sweet 16 Berth After Historic Upset of Stanford | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...spent a lot of time responding to proposalsof the White House with respect to budget itemsfor higher education, and we would respond andcommunicate to congress," Bok says. "It's not justa question of [visiting] senators, it'smarshalling all the facts and information to dealwith them...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Is Rudenstine's A National Voice? | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

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