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Exactly when a catastrophic melt might occur, however, is unpredictable. The long-term rise in global temperature as a result of greenhouse-gas emissions is overlaid with natural, year-to-year variability in all sorts of interconnected oceanic and atmospheric cycles that slow down warming down or speed it up temporarily. But because these variations tend to be cyclical, the "perfect storm" of conditions that caused the record 2007 melting - a situation Stroeve calls "unusual, but not unprecedented" - will probably return at some point. If they do, the Arctic could be primed for major, even irreversible, changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Melting Arctic Ice: What Satellite Images Don't See | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

...height and weight measurements that were reported by participants - which can be imperfect. (People tend to overestimate height and underestimate weight, which skews their BMI.) It also collected height and weight information only once, at the start of the study; researchers could not have known, for instance, whether people might have unintentionally lost weight before the study or during the follow-up as a result of underlying disease. Furthermore, the study's participants had a lower overall mortality rate than the general population, suggesting they were healthier to start with. Many overweight and obese people die at younger ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Being Fat May Not Be All Bad — if You're 70 | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

...might be expected, American football is nowhere near as popular as in the United States. Games attract only a couple hundred fans...

Author: By Charlie Cabot, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Captain Brings Football to Spain | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

...plan that if my [LSAT] score was really well, then I might of just went to Yale or Harvard.... But it was just mediocre,” he said...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Who Needs Harvard Law When You've Got Jersey Shore? | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

...standard for concussion awareness. "I think that's fair," says Chris Berman, ESPN's lead football studio host. "We've done it and will be a little more cognizant of the fact that a 10-second comment, for a 13-year-old or high school player watching, might be helpful." Let's see if he keeps his word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Problem with Football: How to Make It Safer | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

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