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...from 600 B.C., flooding seawater threatens the airport runway and a seven-mile evacuation road. "During storms, people begin to panic," says town official Rex Rock. In the Pribilof Islands, villagers blame global warming along with industrial contaminants for the decline of 20 species, ranging from kelp to sea lion. In Barrow, capital of the oil-rich North Slope Borough, sandbags and dredging haven't protected $500 million in infrastructure. "We are at a crossroads," says Mayor Edith Vorderstrasse. "Is it practical to stand and fight our Mother Ocean? Or do we surrender and move...
...there are new pressures given the long hours of working couples," says sociologist Arlie Hochschild, whose groundbreaking 1989 book, The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home, found that through the mid-'80s, women still did the lion's share of cleaning. "I think the ideal of shared housework has caught...
...live in the world where President Bush, whose bold wartime leadership has made America safer, survived an ambush from that liberal lion Dan Rather, who tried to swing the race with a bunch of phony documents trashing Bush's National Guard service, only to have the charges blow up in his face...
...gain from participating in elections than do the Sunni insurgents. (Shiites make up more than 60 percent of the population, whereas Sunni Arabs comprise less than 20 percent.) Sadr's game is not necessarily to prevent elections, but to ensure that, at some point, his party wins the lion's share of the Shiite vote...
Luxury quotient: The company has become the LVMH of beauty in recent years--acquiring 13 brands, from MAC to La Mer. But its original five still make up the lion's share of sales. "We are brand builders," says Lauder. And he is just getting started. He aims to double the size of the company in five to 10 years...