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...reached "that toddling town," as Frank Sinatra has it, about two steps behind a heat wave that had Chicagoans speculating whether a human could actually melt. The weather was all the word hereabouts, the weather and O.J. Simpson, and the two local subjects, heat and homicide, utterly eclipsed the Cup, the most popular sporting event on earth. Nevertheless there was a parade, and bunting and flags were hung about, and the city cleaned itself and put out flowers and swept bums under the rug. Outside those who stood to turn a dollar (about 200 million of them were expected...
PREDICTION: Sea levels will rise as warmer oceans expand and ice caps and snow cover melt...
...huge embankments of snow melt into lakes, and as the sand and salt from the sidewalks acccumulate into crusty heaps inside our rooms, the rash of recent snowstorms has been testing the patience of even the most devoted winter aficionados...
Though Hamlet only wished that his too, too solid flesh might melt away, Cuomo and Flynn seemed to have actually suffered this fate...
...that something bigger is going on. Climatologists once thought the world eased into ice ages, with average temperatures in parts of the Northern Hemisphere falling 15 degrees over hundreds or thousands of years. During long, frigid winters and short, cool summers, snow piled up much faster than it could melt, and mile-thick sheets of ice gradually covered much of the planet's land surface. After 100,000 years or so, scientists believed, the glaciers made a dignified retreat, stayed put for about 10,000 years and then began to grow again...