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...methane, like CO2, is on the rise thanks to us: about 60% of global methane emissions come from man-made sources, and the atmospheric concentration of methane has increased by around 150% since 1750, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Now there's new focus on a pair of methane sources that we usually don't think of as natural polluters: wetlands and rice paddies. (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
Small-stakes players also tend to do better with small-denomination cards. A pair of jacks may easily beat a pair of fours, but people who don't gamble much tend to win more with the fours - or with any cards from twos to sevens. That's because the cards' modest numerical worth is easy to understand: they're valuable but not that valuable. When you get into the more rarefied air of eights to aces, you may start losing perspective and putting up more money. "Small pairs have a less ambiguous value," Siler says. (See more about casinos...
...Crimson earned a pair of IC4A qualifications and showed depth across the board, as numerous athletes logged top-15 finishes in a crowded collegiate and open field. In particular, Harvard’s younger competitors demonstrated their potential...
...Harvard women also had strong finishes, particularly in the platform diving competition where freshmen Teagan Lehrmann and Brittany Powell took third with 238.05 points and fourth with 231.40 points, respectively. The pair of rookies qualified for the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships with the performances...
Nowadays, even a stray pair of tweezers or a bottle of saline solution can make a journey through airport security an unpleasant experience. So when Irish authorities were alerted on Tuesday that a man had passed through Dublin Airport days earlier carrying high-grade plastic explosives, it's not surprising that a large-scale security alert was triggered. The roads around the 49-year-old electrician's apartment in Dublin were cordoned off, and bomb-disposal experts searched the premises, turning up 3 oz. of the powerful explosive material RDX. The amount was greater than what Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab...