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...Florida, her lamb would melt...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Achieving the Divine Spark | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...more environmental disaster to the list of potential dire consequences of the greenhouse effect. A general warming of the earth because of increasing amounts of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere might not only melt the polar ice caps and drastically alter weather patterns but cause more ferocious storms. Writing in Nature, M.I.T. Meteorologist Kerry Emanuel warned that a warmer climate could result in hurricanes packing up to 50% more destructive power. This could happen, he suggests, within 40 to 80 years, when some scientists think CO2 levels will have doubled and ocean temperatures will have increased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: More Violent Hurricanes? | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...lesson learned by the porn industry is that traditional female repugnance to porn can melt when the product is cleaned up a bit and presented at home, where the woman can feel safe and treat the movie as a prelude to lovemaking. Women account for perhaps 40% of the estimated 100 million rentals of X-rated tapes each year. "The VCR put porno where it belongs: in people's bedrooms," says an executive vice president for one porn house, Essex Productions of Chatsworth, Calif. "I never felt it belonged in theaters. People feel that in the comfort of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Romantic Porn in the Boudoir | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

When it comes to tournament time, however, all advantages and disadvantages melt away. Teams play on adrenaline, on passion, on whatever is left in them after long seasons...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Icemen, Sioux to Whoop It Up | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

...problem is the matter of matter--fecal matter to be precise. The recent warm weather (anything would be warm compared to the arctic temps we had in early February) has caused much of the frozen tundra across the quad to melt. Melting snow obviously produces mud. But it uncovers something else, which is much harder to scrape off your shoes, and smells absolutely awful, whether you walk...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: What’s Matter and What Matters | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

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