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Exactly when a catastrophic melt might occur, however, is unpredictable. The long-term rise in global temperature as a result of greenhouse-gas emissions is overlaid with natural, year-to-year variability in all sorts of interconnected oceanic and atmospheric cycles that slow down warming down or speed it up temporarily. But because these variations tend to be cyclical, the "perfect storm" of conditions that caused the record 2007 melting - a situation Stroeve calls "unusual, but not unprecedented" - will probably return at some point. If they do, the Arctic could be primed for major, even irreversible, changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Melting Arctic Ice: What Satellite Images Don't See | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

...Good,” a curve ball might crop up, but for the most part, Muse sing about one thing: the end of the world.A theme that big requires music of a similar scale to prop it up. For Muse, that means crunching guitar riffs and driving base lines overlaid with Matt Bellamy’s operatic, choirboy-gone-bad falsetto. When all these elements come together, Muse songs can be sublime slices of ominous, oddly euphoric prog rock; when they don’t, the songs veer quickly into the realm of the absurd. Through four albums of material...

Author: By Daniel K. Lakhdhir, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Muse | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...down. For that reason, new-home sales are best looked at over five or six months. There's still reason for optimism: a four-month string of increases is starting to get to the point at which one can legitimately call the trend significant. That's especially true when overlaid with data from the National Association of Realtors that show sales of previously owned houses are going up too. Still, what happens with new-home sales in the next few months will be incredibly important context...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Housing Market: Has It Turned the Corner? | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

English is a voracious melting pot of a language. It's basically what the Anglo-Saxons brought over from the mainland to the British Isles. Then that was overlaid with Latin, because the British Isles were conquered by the Romans and converted to Christianity. Then the French conquered the island in 1066, so French was the official language in England for 300 years. With the Renaissance came a big influx of more Latin words. You had the Scientific Revolution, so you had a big influx of Greek words. Then with colonialism, the language started taking words from everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spelling Bee Pronouncer Jacques Bailly | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

...have been returned, but I always want to come back to pieces that haven't been returned. My favorite piece is, in my view, the most historically significant piece that is still missing. That's the Lioness attacking a Nubian boy in 8th century B.C., made of Syrian ivory, overlaid with gold, inlaid with lapis lazuli and carnelian. It is still missing. It's always a painful reminder to me, and until each and every piece that has been stolen from the museum is returned, I will have considered my mission in Iraq to have been a failure. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stolen-Treasure Hunter Matthew Bogdanos | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

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