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...work, the world might forfeit a natural library filled with priceless archives. For like the rings of long-lived trees and the accreted layers of massive corals, ice encodes surprisingly precise records of swings in temperature and precipitation over the centuries. Once that ice starts to melt, however, those records might as well have been written in water-smeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Climatology: The Iceman | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

Milan Hajek has a way with waste. Back in 1997 he devised a means to use microwaves to melt glass around industrial waste laden with toxic heavy metals. The melted glass encapsulated the waste, thus making it safe for disposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Artisans | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...seen them: perfectly toned celebrities on late-night television telling us that we too can develop rock-hard abdominal muscles. It's easy! Just slap down $149.99 for the Torso Track or $149.75 for the Ab-Doer and watch those unwanted inches melt from your waist. Americans shelled out tens of millions of dollars last year on various devices to firm up their flabby midriffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Absolutely Fabulous? | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...that the ice caps will melt, the seas will rise and drown the coasts - not coincidentally, where Al Gore picked up most of his votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Secret Warm-up Act | 8/10/2001 | See Source »

...mecha" (mechanical)--and not Martin. From a closet she retrieves an old supertoy, a stuffed bear named Teddy, who becomes David's most faithful companion. Soon David is calling her Mommy. Bereft of her only natural child, she cradles this artificial one. Bathed in Nativity light, mother and child melt into a Pieta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'A.I.' — Spielberg's Strange Love | 6/17/2001 | See Source »

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