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...last ice age, when the world was warm--quite warm, about 9°F hotter in Europe than it is today. Given that the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that temperatures could rise 3.24°F to 7.2°F over the coming century, the Eemian could offer a model for the effect such thermometer swings will have on Greenland's ice. A full climatic record of the Eemian has never been constructed, but over the next several summers (scientific work is seasonal on the freezing-cold island), the NEEM researchers hope to harvest cores that will help...
...Amis is saying, and yet he is doing it in the most insensitive way—exploiting an event that should be treated with the utmost respect and seriousness. For the depth of his understanding of the problems facing the post-9/11 world, Amis has very little to offer by way of solution. “Opposition to religion already occupies the high ground, intellectually and morally,†he says. “People of independent mind should now start to claim the spiritual high ground, too.†And in a similar vein...
...Being able to offer undergraduate degrees was one of the main reasons SEAS wanted to stay connected to FAS, and SEAS is now developing two new undergraduate concentrations, one in Science, Technology, and Society, and one in Bioengineering...
...mission than the previous one,†he says. And though he and his fellow HAA concentrators will have graduated before the Fogg re-opens, many of them laud the facilities and resources that the new museum will house.“They’re going to offer so many good and beneficial changes for the students,†Blackstock says of the plans, citing the study rooms and the café that have been proposed by Piano as changes that will draw more students into the building. “I really hope they...
...Barack Obama have said they would shut the U.S. military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, where about 250 men remain behind bars - some in their eighth year of captivity. But neither presidential candidate has outlined when and how they plan to do it. One man ready to offer them some free advice on the problem of Guantánamo is Sami Al-Hajj, an al-Jazeera TV cameraman recently freed, without facing charges, after six and a half years at Guantánamo. "It's worse than the fire of Hell," he wrote two years ago from...