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...anymore. Just last week two separate studies published in Science linked a significant increase in the temperature of the oceans with global warming caused by human activity. An authoritative report issued in January by the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change also found that the trend toward a warmer world has unquestionably begun. Worldwide temperatures have climbed more than .6?C over the past century, and the 1990s were the hottest decade on record. After analyzing data going back at least two decades on everything from air and ocean temperatures to the spread and retreat of wildlife, the IPCC asserts...
...crew, and had the highest re-enlistment rate--65%--of any attack sub in the Pacific Fleet. And the skipper proudly allowed re-enlisters to commemorate their return in almost any fashion they wanted. Be it parachuting out of an airplane or floating in full dive gear in the ocean, Waddle would be along for the rite of passage...
...bleak, nameless room in Oklahoma City. But somewhere along the way I'd like to know: Did you find a compensating grace in McVeigh's death, some sliver of serenity that eluded you before? Are you wiser, are you lighter, is there one less drop of grief in your ocean of sorrow? Perhaps some crimes are too horrendous to be forgiven. Only retribution will do, and justly so. You can help us. We need to know...
...otherwise dismal life. After much arguing between them, and after many bitter monologues, the two seem ready to accept the fact that although neither of them are perfect, they both need each other. The play ends on a relatively positive note as they both contemplate the wonder of the ocean, indicating a kind of baptism or re-birth...
...Among his own people. White now dependent on black. What Ms. Gordimer does not seem to understand - like most of the well-heeled white families who populate this lovely resort town on the Indian Ocean where I'm staying - is that July's People are the people of this country, and that South Africa is now an African country. The sensitive moral register of the white readers of Ms. Gordimer's fiction - and I promise you, Ms. Gordimer had no black South African readers - doesn't much matter anymore. Whites no longer have to be persuaded that blacks should have...