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...Beard's dismissal of global warming changes when his unhappy home - his current wife is cheating on him in response to his half-dozen extramarital affairs - and his stalled work collide on the full-length polar-bear rug in his living room. (Updating Chekhov: If the author of a climate-change novel shows you a polar-bear rug in the first act, you can be sure it will bare its teeth in the next one.) Quite suddenly, Beard discovers what he believes is the solution to the problem of climate change: artificial photosynthesis, harnessing sunlight to split water and yield...
...full name, in its unabridged form, is Henrietta Zane Bratton Wruble. It’s long. It sounds pretentious, at times. It stretches across the entire length of my HUID. To speak it out loud is clumsy enough that I have taken to whipping out said ID so that inquisitors can see the absurdity for themselves. Ever since coming to Harvard, its entirety has been plastered on every class list and official e-mail, so I’ve long since given up on maintaining it as my Deepest Darkest Secret...
...7city Learning, which assists financial firms in training recruits, says a number of the company's clients are doubling the length of their new employee development programs in order to accomodate more people. Also, in their recent survey, 7city found that half of the 36 large financial firms they asked said they planned to hire 20% more junior employees than a year...
Wale has released five mixtapes and one full-length album entitled “Attention Deficit.” Debuting on Nov. 10, 2009, the album surged to the number 21 spot on the Billboard 200 in its first week, helped by popular singles like “Chillin” and “Pretty Girls...
...Rubio, meanwhile, grappled with looming image problems of his own and was forced to refute the notion suggested by debate moderator Chris Wallace that he's trying to keep the conservative Tea Party movement and its fringe aura at arm's length. "I've been to 15 or 20 [Tea Party events] around the state," Rubio said. (See pictures of GOP memorabilia...