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...warming debate. To reverse the warming trend, we don't just have to return to pre-1990 levels of greenhouse-gas emissions; we have to go back even further. The Kyoto Protocol was obsolete when it was drawn up. Without action, the rate of global warming will not be linear but exponential--the rate at which the planet is warming is increasing. We must control global population and cut back drastically on fossil-fuel use. From a global-warming perspective, the only light at the end of the tunnel is that we will eventually run out of fossil fuel. CHARLES...
Though suicide is an incredibly complex phenomenon that defies linear explanations, homosexuality almost certainly played a role in Mike’s death. Essays and writings that Mike left behind express profound turmoil about his sexual identity and personal goals. Even though we can only guess speculatively at Mike’s motives, we do know that suicide is an act of desperation. Statistics show that gay teens are over three times more likely than their straight peers to attempt suicide because they experience greater marginalization and loneliness. For someone like Mike who grew up craving success, praise and recognition...
...example, panels are comics' most common denotation of time, so it makes sense that the "timeless" Richards/Doom sequences take place more or less without them. Look carefully and you may also notice that these single, long panels are made to seem on top of, not next to the linear panels of the other, more conventional, story. Simonson's visual motif reflects the nature of the story being told, namely a battle outside of time yet related to the events underneath...
...straps for hands and feet and a movable bench with two rotating disks attached to its edge. Together they work in synch to stretch, strengthen and increase range of motion. Gyrotonics combines elements of Kundalini yoga, dance and Tai Chi, but it feels closest to synchronized swimming. Instead of linear back-and-forth movements, GXS offers more than a hundred variations, most of them circular and three-dimensional...
...these inventions and the philosophy behind them, it's hard not to get a sobering sense of the impending death of traditional, text-based linear narrative. Will generations to come ever know the delights of picking up a good book and reading it from start to finish? Or will they rather skim through it on their tablet PCs, Speeder Reading what the computer has predetermined to be the best bits based on their previous preferences, choosing alternative endings, letting the robot dog finish it for them...