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...layer of peat, an extremely combustible material, provides ready fuel for ravaging wildfires. These fires could drive carbon emissions higher still, Moorcroft said...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Peat Bogs Can Play Role in Warming | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...study found that temperature increases cause the water table in the peat bogs to drop, leaving a dry layer of peat exposed...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Peat Bogs Can Play Role in Warming | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...laws of probability, fleeting. Writes de Villiers: "The period of calm in which the human species was formed is only a brief drawing of the breath before the cosmic assault begins once more." So how do we maximize our time in what de Villiers calls a "perilously thin habitable layer on a vulnerable and unstable planet in a hostile neighborhood"? Plan for the worst. As he says, "Good information is the best antidote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...Caden. But by then, Caden is so swallowed up by his role as the director that he effectively barks dramatic criticism at Noonan’s corpse. It’s more than a tragedy—it’s a tragedy in tragic pursuit of itself. Every layer of the film is so kaleidoscopic and thoroughly disorienting as to constitute an experience totally unlike any other in contemporary mainstream American film.But there’s more at work in “Synecdoche” than can be readily explained. Beyond the Brechtian overtones of its self-referential...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Synecdoche, New York" | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

...days leading up to an election, neither presidential campaigns nor prospective appointees confirm rumors about nominations—likely out of concern that the former will seem over-confident and that the latter will seem presumptuous. But in some cases, ambition is only thinly veiled by a layer of political tact...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Goes to Washington | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

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