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...would be easy to assume that when the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) declared in early 2007 that it was "very likely" that global warming was caused by man-made greenhouse-gas emissions, the scientific case on climate change was effectively closed. The evidence showed that when we add carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels or cutting down trees, those gases enhance the greenhouse effect and warm the planet. What else is there to figure...
...During the last third of the show, the issue of sexual assault is addressed directly, yet still unsatisfactorily. An ambiguous scene is described where drunken sexual intercourse takes place. At the end of the scene, the freshman audience is asked whether the man clearly raped the woman. A few hands go up around the room. The audience is then asked whether the man clearly did not rape the woman. Again, a few hands go up around the room. When the audience is asked if it is unclear whether rape occurred in this vague scene, the vast majority of students...
...returned to disrupt their memorial. At least one gunman armed with a semiautomatic weapon cut down 12 people, including a pregnant 23-year-old woman and a 2-year-old. The rest of the night saw six more people shot in the neighborhood, two of whom died. A man has been charged in one of the shootings, but it is unclear if it was connected to the cookout. (Read "How to Turn Around a Gang Member...
...transacted: there does not appear to have been a drug deal involved. The violence seems to have stemmed from a yearlong retribution pattern between two "gangs" that, while involved in selling drugs, were at each other's throats mainly because of the kidnapping of two younger brothers of a man who is linked with one of the groups. At least five homicides are believed to be part of the chain. (Read about mobile youth gangs...
...opinions. "[Kazmi] has been at the forefront of our government attempt to unify all the senior most Muslim leaders of this country who are all opposed to the militant viewpoint on Islam," says presidential spokesperson Farahnaz Ispahani. "He has been out there, he is a mild and soft-spoken man who has spoken out publicly about the sufi Islam that is the true Islam of Pakistan...