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...That is one reason the latest IPCC predictions for temperature increase are higher than they were five years ago. Back in the mid-1990s, climate models didn't include the effects of the El Chichon and Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruptions, which threw enough dust into the air to block out some sunlight and slow down the rate of warming. That effect has dissipated, and the heating should start to accelerate. Moreover, the IPCC noted, many countries have begun to reduce their emissions of sulfur dioxide in order to fight acid rain. But sulfur dioxide particles, too, reflect sunlight; without this...
While Beatrice expanded the chain, it remained largely a Southeastern secret until the mid-1990s. "We really didn't start growing until two or three years ago," Livengood says. The company has since opened restaurants from Boston to San Francisco and plans to have more than 500 in operation by 2005. As of now, these fat factories will produce doughnuts for both walk-in customers and commercial clients like Starbucks...
...mid-1990s, the Federal Communications Commission loosened radio regulations, allowing a single company to own more than one radio station in a market. Aiese says the regulatory change means that radio stations are becoming increasingly homogenous throughout the country...
...increasingly acrimonious debate over genetically engineered crops erupted the moment they made their commercial debut in the mid-1990s. European environmentalists and consumer-advocacy groups were the first to launch major protests that have since spread worldwide. Environmentalists in India have filed suit against Monsanto to prevent it from testing genetically modified cotton. In the Philippines, farmers have demonstrated against seed giants Monsanto and Dupont's field tests of Bt corn. And activists there point to Miracle Rice?a product of the Green Revolution in the '60s?as a cautionary lesson. Its wholesale adoption in Southeast Asia...
...Tricia, despite her family's strong connection to Columbia (her older brother James also played for Columbia in the mid-1990s), she has found Harvard to be a perfect...