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...weren't for the memory of how fresh and joyful their 1996 film Swingers was, the Jon Favreau-Vince Vaughn comedy Couples Retreat might seem like any other broad, dumb movie - the kind Ben Stiller churns out with alarming regularity - with a sizable budget; a gorgeous location; funny dudes; pretty, bikini-ready women; and plenty of sex jokes. Not great but not terrible. But this movie, which plays out like the fulfillment of the Swingers dudes' worst nightmares, is just sad. (See TIME's fall entertainment preview...
...course, an increase in CO2 (or any other heat-trapping greenhouse gas) can't lead to that kind of sea-level rise unless the CO2 level stays high for a while. The latest projections suggest a rise of 6 ft. at most by 2100, even if CO2 continues to increase at the current rate. But the new study implies that failing to tamp down emissions could eventually lead to a disaster worse than most climate Cassandras have dreamed of. (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...explaining," says Ed Boyle, a professor of ocean geochemistry at MIT. "My cautious view is that this looks promising right now, but I've been studying chemical tracers in foraminifera for pretty much my whole career, and there are often unexpected twists and turns." It is, he says, "the kind of thing where they may turn out to be right, and we'll look back in five years and say, 'that was when it all began to come together...
This week's arrest of accused Rwandan génocidaire Idelphonse Nizeyimana is the kind of thing that human-rights lawyers dream about. Dubbed the "Butcher of Butare," Nizeyimana is a suspect whose conviction would be a powerful symbol of justice in a land where thousands of the genocide's perpetrators escaped punishment by blending back into society or fleeing across the border into the Democratic Republic of Congo...
Panetta won't say what kind of covert operations were carried out or how the agency was able to conclude that the Qum facility was nuclear. The counterterrorism officials says only that "our body of knowledge, based on multiple sources, grew to the point that allowed us earlier this year to reach the high-confidence conclusion that this was a covert nuclear facility...