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What researchers found was a stretch of a few hundred thousand years during which foraminifera shells were unusually rich in oxygen-18, suggesting the presence of glaciers. Though changes in ocean temperature can also alter the oxygen balance, sea-bottom temperatures don't vary much no matter what's happening up top, yet the bottom-dwelling foraminifera still exhibited an oxygen imbalance, implying that the ice effect was more likely. Nobody can explain how you can have glaciers in a superhot world. But then, nobody can really explain how the world got quite that hot in the first place...
...Putin has a strategic vision for his country, as Henry Kissinger noted in your interview. While Putin's place in history is still a matter of speculation, the resurgence of Russia is not. It isn't clear whether Russia will become a full-fledged democracy, but it is already much freer than countries like China. It is no accident that svoboda - freedom - is a much celebrated word in Russia today. Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Head, Center for Strategic Studies, State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil...
...cuts could easily have become a cookie-cutter partisan. Former Wisconsin Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus just didn't think that way. So in 1982 the charismatic onetime college chancellor signed the nation's first gay-rights law prohibiting discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations. The matter-of-fact Governor insisted that not intruding on private lives was a distinctly Republican virtue. "There is nothing more private or intimate than who you live with and who you love," he said. Dreyfus...
...many people spend time worrying about the fact that the universe is lumpy. Galaxies are lumps of matter surrounded by empty space. They cluster in groups--lumps of lumps--surrounded by even vaster stretches of space...
...based on hard cash, not heartstrings. Instead of challenging his party's old notions, he conformed to them as closely as a loaf of bread conforms to its pan. But he learned in these tumultuous five days that democracy is more than weighing wallets and poll-testing positions, no matter what your consultants might tell...