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...Temperatures Depending on greenhouse-gas emissions, global temperatures will rise between 1.1?C and 6.4?C by 2100. If carbon levels double from the pre-industrial norm-something many experts say is a lock-the IPCC believes the mercury will rise by about 3?C, accompanied by longer and more intense heat waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising the Climate Stakes | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...often lost their identities in marriage and motherhood. Moms and dads can be unique, creative individuals after they have kids. It's being a unique, creative individual through your kids that's disturbing. Pierce whatever body part you want, having a kid is not alternative: it's been the norm since we stopped reproducing by division. And while toddlers may love punk rock, they crave routine and predictability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Complex: Too Cool for Preschool | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

Depending on greenhouse-gas emissions, global temperatures will probably rise between about 2?F and 12?F by 2100. If carbon levels double from the preindustrial norm--which many experts deem very likely--the IPCC predicts a warming of about 5?F as well as longer and more intense heat waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising the Climate Stakes | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...from the beginning.Instead, Mailer opens the novel in a mode that borders on the farcical, with his narrator focusing on such topics as incest and monorchidism (speaketh the Oxford English Dictionary: “The condition of having only one testis, or only one descended testis”). Thanks, Norm!It’s a mildly amusing and halfway-clever diversion in a book full of them. Did you know that a young Adolf Hitler had his “pip-squeak of an anus kept as immaculate as an opal, small and glistening?” Or that evil...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mailer Explores Hitler's Devils, Testicle | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

According to Greenfield, this marked a departure from the norm. In the two semesters before this fall, there was a specific committee dedicated to CUE publicity, he said...

Author: By Nicholas A. Ciani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College: Fill Out The CUE | 1/22/2007 | See Source »

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