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...begun?" [Feb. 27] reported the discovery that Greenland's glaciers are melting faster than anyone expected. That is more proof of global warming, and the resulting rise in sea levels makes the immediate impact of climate change worse than anticipated. The glaciers are also receding at Glacier National Park, Montana. We are having milder winters in the Midwest, and tropical frog species are disappearing. What more evidence do we need? Shane Nodurft Chicago Our greedy, growing world is fast running out of resources, two of them being oil and freshwater. Maybe we have to rethink our priorities. It might...
...immigration question kind of intersects with another major trend, which is the future of cities. In the early days of the Internet, there was this sense that cities were emptying out and the Internet was going to increase that because everybody was going to live in their ranch in Montana and telecommute and all this kind of stuff, and exactly the opposite has happened. And it's a global phenomenon. [Cities] are going to be increasingly central, maybe more important than they ever were. And the suburban trend of everyone kind of moving out there and sitting around watching television...
...catcher, to share their individual tribe’s tradition and history. “There’s a general misconception of a pan-native American identity,” said April D. Youpee-Roll ’08, a native of the Fort Peck Sioux Tribe in Montana. “But there’s a great deal of diversity among us.” Elijah M. Hutchinson ’06, a native Taino from New York who posed with a fistful of feathers to audience laughter, said he identifies more with his tribe than...
...notable gains were in the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale area of Arizona, where home prices have already almost doubled in the last five years. Last year, prices rose again by nearly 40%. Arizona's hot housing market helped push it, and its neighboring Mountain states - Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, Montana and Utah - to the top of OFHEO's list of fastest-growing regions. The Pacific region - Washington, Oregon and California - came in next with regional prices increases of 18.75%. Home prices on the East Coast, in states from Maryland to Florida, showed their fastest growth rate since 1975, jumping nearly...
...backstroke. He broke the team- and EISL-record time of 47.02 by just three-hundredths of a second. The record was personally important as well—it had belonged to Dave Berkoff, one of his age-group coaches in Cromwell’s home state of Montana.“[Cromwell] really embodies everything it takes to be a hardworking, dominant swimmer,” Rathgeber said. “He’s a tremendous swimmer, and performs exceptionally every time. This weekend, he put on a show and left everything in the pool.”Harvard...