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...study the chemistry of ancient mud and ice, and they are increasingly convinced that climate change is anything but smooth. The transition from warm to frigid can come in a decade or two -- a geological snap of the fingers. Says Gerard Bond, a geophysicist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Observatory: "The data have been coming out of Greenland for maybe two or three decades. But the first results were really so surprising that people weren't ready to believe them...
...talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B's go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i's.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get A's too, but as Mr. Carswell points out, this takes too long. There are other ways...
Just getting there is half the fun. Taking the shuttle is not only a safe, reliable and practical way to get across campus. It can be amusing as well. The 9:25 shuttle to Lamont arrived a little early--a welcome sight for frozen shuttle riders. At 9:25 on the dot, the shuttle took off, mercifully picking up a few students at an unscheduled stop in front of Schoenhoff...
...have had a history of frustration, of feeling that it's our responsibility to be maintaining these collections appropriately for people's use," said Heather Cole, librarian of the Lamont and Hilles Libraries. "Over the years, there have just been too many holes in the sieve...
...system will consist of security tags on the books, machines to deactivate and activate the tags when books are checked out and returned, and security gates outside each exit of Widener, Lamont and Pusey...