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...appropriation of Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, in 2003. All three have been critically and commercially well-received, appealing to a wide variety of readers, prize judges and drama producers who have turned both Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith into successful bbc adaptations. Often touted as a role model in the lesbian literary tradition, Waters is quick to acknowledge one of her immediate forerunners. "Jeanette Winterson is someone who had a huge effect," she says, "because she was writing clearly lesbian literature with literary ambitions as well. Her novels are good literary models. I think suddenly lesbian writers thought...
...fact it is. While there's little doubt that humans are helping heat up the planet, the questions of how much, how quickly and leading to what consequences are fiendishly difficult to pin down. That's because the actual climate is still far more complicated than any existing computer model can accurately reflect, making predictions iffy at best. Some natural processes nobody has yet thought of could end up blunting the severest impact of global warming...
...computer climate model anticipated that increase, which means that all current predictions about how much sea level could rise--the latest U.N. report estimated it at a half-meter (about 1.5 ft.) by the end of the century--are too low and will have to be revised upward. Greenland's ice cap covers more than 650,000 sq. mi. and in places stands nearly 2 miles thick. "If it all melted or otherwise slid into the ocean, sea level would rise by 20 ft. or so," says Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton. Under conventional...
There are various ways of addressing this concern, some philosophical and some pragmatic. On the philosophical end, one might question whether we ought to accept the “self-interest” model of rational choice foisted upon us by economists. After all, protest only seems irrational when “success” is so individualistically defined. On the pragmatic end, the public relations victories that human rights advocates are winning serve as evidence that one will not be alone in making ethical decisions and hence that such efforts at bringing about change need not be totally...
...route to our utopic cosmopolis, Appiah suggests, we will also save the arts—in the cosmopolitan model of constant intercourse and “contamination” over authenticity, great works of art are restored to being objects of common worth, the inheritance...