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...meltdown begun?" [Feb. 27] reported the discovery that Greenland's glaciers are melting faster than anyone expected. That is more proof of global warming, and the resulting rise in sea levels makes the immediate impact of climate change worse than anticipated. The glaciers are also receding at Glacier National Park, Montana. We are having milder winters in the Midwest, and tropical frog species are disappearing. What more evidence do we need? Shane Nodurft Chicago Our greedy, growing world is fast running out of resources, two of them being oil and freshwater. Maybe we have to rethink our priorities. It might...
Cecil Sharp house in London's leafy Regent's Park is nobody's idea of a fashionable venue. The spartan headquarters of the English Folk Dance and Song Society is home to such curiosities as tabor-drum workshops and Morris-dancing classes. Not a place, then, where one would expect to encounter Anna Wintour, the editor of American Vogue, especially not at the height of London Fashion Week. Yet Wintour, along with New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art's top brass, had an assignation there with the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. So entertaining was the performance that...
...interesting influences hiding beneath the surface of Hard-Fi’s sound. Their broad sonic palette boasts a wide variety of electronic sounds, and some of the album’s most interesting moments occur when Hard-Fi tries to sound more Daft Punk than Maxïmo Park. But even that doesn’t always work, giving the music the unwelcome sweaty sensation of being trapped in a trashy European dischotheque. What’s most tragic about the release is that it finally gets good with the last track, “Stars of CCTV...
...arrive at Harvard fitter, older, and more mature (at least in riflery skills) than the average 18-year-old freshman. Myat San, from Singapore, faced two and a half years of service after graduating from high school. And the first three months of training were no walk in the park. “A lot of people come out with injuries, heat stroke, broken bones, broken ankles,” he says. Myat San left the army after two years to attend Harvard on a military scholarship. When he returns to Singapore, he plans to complete his term and work...
...Meltdown Begun?" [Feb. 27] reported the discovery that Greenland's glaciers are melting faster than anyone expected. That is more proof of global warming, and the resulting rise in sea levels makes the immediate impact of climate change worse than anticipated. The glaciers are also receding at Glacier National Park, Mont. We are having milder winters in the Midwest, and tropical frog species are disappearing. What more evidence does anybody need...