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...storm - or even a season's worth of storms - to disprove climate change (or to prove it; some environmentalists have wrongly tied the lack of snow in Vancouver, the site of the Winter Olympic Games, which begin this week, to global warming). Weather is what will happen next weekend; climate is what will happen over the next decades and centuries. And while our ability to predict the former has become reasonably reliable, scientists are still a long way from being able to make accurate projections about the future of the global climate. Of course, that doesn't help you much...
...program in the U.S. has been highly active over the past few decades. The space shuttle has flown nearly 130 flights, and the International Space Station is entering its tenth year of operation. However, last week, President Obama cancelled the National Aeronautics and Space Administration program to build a next generation spacecraft to travel to the International Space Station and the moon, essentially “grounding” our human space flight program There are only four more scheduled space shuttle flights remaining. Following this, American astronauts will rely on Russian rockets to travel to the space station...
...Vixen, Phoenix S.K. to Flamingo, could leave the women, and not the men, waiting outside for admission on some cold Friday evening in February. Such a disparity, though, could make it far easier for the guys interested in the ladies to find someone to take to the next House formal...
Case in point: in its eighth season, America’s Next Top Model aired a “crime scene” photo shoot, where each contestant appeared as a supine victim, having been variously electrocuted, decapitated, or stripped of internal organs by a fellow model. The judges received these images, unequivocal in their eroticization of the brutalized female body, with banal one-liners, extolling their elegance, beauty, and “fierceness.” One chastised a contestant for lacking “some sort of spark,” opining “you just gave...
...When I'm on guard next time," he told them, "I'm going to waste a bunch of dudes in a car. And we'll just say they were running...