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...effect varied from one species to another. Beyond that, they compared their own foraminifera-based CO2 estimates for the past 800,000 years with the measurements from the ice caps - and, says Tripati, "they matched to within 20 p.p.m." That makes her and her colleagues confident that the older measurements are valid as well...
...soon enough, appeals to his patriotism convinced Dickerson, and for the past three years, he has taught special-education classes at Denver's East High School. He is just one of the thousands of older, second-career military retirees (the average age at first hire is 44) whom the program has channeled into the teaching profession. But as successful as the 15-year-old program has been, supporters say it needs to enlarge its talent pool in order to attract the waves of younger troops returning from hot spots such as Iraq and Afghanistan and making the not-always-easy...
Courtney, a co-sponsor of the tentatively named Post-9/11 Troops to Teachers Enhancement Act, wants to enlarge the bonus pool to include all Title I schools (those where fewer than 40% of students come from low-income families); that would - theoretically, at least - offer additional opportunities to older military retirees, who are generally settled in one location and would be inclined to teach at nearby schools that are not currently eligible. At the same time, in order to appeal to younger members of the military who may be returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with fewer than six years...
...disclosure of things he'd seen and experienced. While the portion of the book dealing with prostitution might worry some readers - "I got into the habit of paying for boys," he writes - Mitterrand argues that his use of the word boy referred to younger men rather than minors. Many older gay men use the expression in that way, he says. "If the National Front drags me through the mud, it's an honor," Mitterrand said. "But if a leftist legislator is dragging me through the mud, he should be ashamed...
...polls. Barack Obama gave us a reason to vote for him, rather than just another lame excuse to vote against them. We were taken by his formidable intellect and his youthful energy. We were interested in his story, inspired by his eloquence, and impressed with his honesty. Older generations who had endured the stinging insults of racism found in him cause for hope that their deferred dreams might finally be realized. And people my age—young enough to still care but old enough to be angry—were grateful for the chance to believe in something again...