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...Boulder: 'Humans are altering the earth's surface and changing the atmosphere at such a rate that we have become a competitor with natural forces that maintain our climate. WHAT IS NEW IS THE POTENTIAL IRREVERSIBILITY OF THE CHANGES THAT ARE NOW TAKING PLACE.' Indeed, if the ozone layer diminishes over populated areas?and there is some evidence that it has begun to do so, although nowhere as dramatically as in the Antarctic?the consequences could be dire...
...site, perhaps the remnants of a series of ponds, extends far beneath it. "They were in a hurry," he says of the hunters, "and I'd love to catch up with them." He believes the tracks were probably made within a matter of months and preserved when protective layers of silty clay covered the muddy sediment. And it's likely that more tracks remain on several underlying layers. "It's like a layer of pancakes," he says, "and we can only see the jam on the top." Other unusual marks could be from implements; Aboriginal trackers from northern Australia...
WHAT ABOUT FRAUD? Kate Spade has hired 13 law-school students to sit in front of a computer all day scouring for fakes. When they find one, they shut down the auction with the push of a button. Also, drop shops add a layer of accountability because now there's a real business you can look to if what you get is not what you ordered. You're no longer dealing with a stranger on the other...
...Remembrance of Things Past. Six months later he would be dead. Davenport-Hines credits Proust, and a discussion of Remembrance of Things Past with a flirtatious male don, for winning him a place at Cambridge. Here he repays the favor with a Proustian portrait of his hero, adding layer upon layer of sometimes miscellaneous information, in vaguely chronological order. Though Proust always insisted his masterwork was not a roman à clef, Davenport-Hines shows the parallels between Proust and his fictional narrator, real figures and the fabricated ones. Born in Paris to a rich Jewish mother and a Catholic physician...
Right about now we bet DANIEL CRAIG wishes he were still known simply as the coke dealer from Layer Cake or the hothead assassin from Munich. Instead, Craig, who picks up the tuxedo-modeling gig in November's James Bond movie, Casino Royale, is under siege from skeptical 007 fans. On a new website, Craignotbond.com angry fans ask why "a short, blond actor with the rough face of a professional boxer and a penchant for playing villains, killers, cranks, cads and gigolos" ever got the iconic part. Pining for a little Pierce Brosnan--style suavity, the fans say they plan...