Word: papers
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...climate scientists don't have all the answers, as they will freely and frequently admit, and even when researchers uncover a new piece of data, it isn't always clear what it means. That's very much the case with a new paper about methane emissions, published Thursday in Science. Based on a series of expeditions to the margins of the Arctic Ocean by ship and helicopter, University of Alaska researcher Natalia Shakhova and her colleagues report that methane, a greenhouse gas that is 30 times more effective in trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, is bubbling...
...delivery was excited and earnest, so I had a lot to work with. Plus, she wanted her speech to be fun: "I'm not going to be like the guys. They're so serious. I actually care. I'm not going to walk up there with a piece of paper like those idiots. And I timed it so it's 45 seconds. I don't want to be embarrassed." I nodded as if I weren't completely ignoring her last sentence...
...Power of the Paper Recognition was the buzzword outside and in the drab hallways where couples, eager to get their applications completed, snaked toward the Marriage Office. Many used that word in a strictly legal sense, explaining that they wanted to be married for the sake of their children's inheritance rights, taxes or hospital visits. (See a video of the fallout from a Florida gay-marriage...
...Though in some ways it's a piece of paper, [it's really] the recognition of a family," said father-of-two Reggie Stanley, who got the second license with Rocky Galloway. "We're proud of the responsibility it means to one another and to our community...
...Daily Mail may take the prize for the most outrageous coverage so far. Aside from the two quotes in the previous paragraph, the paper ran a caption beneath a front-page photo of Queen Elizabeth II with Zuma and his newest wife, Thobeka Madiba Zuma, reading: "Just Brought One Wife, Mr. Zuma?" The Mail also commented on what it called Zuma's "colorful life," which consists of "five wives, a love child with the daughter of one of his political allies, a criminal trial for alleged rape of an HIV-positive woman and corruption charges." Not stopping there, the paper...