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This does not, of course, make the Lords a particularly energetic arm of the government. By one count, listening to Baroness Jay's speech last week, there were 76 bald heads, 16 mustaches, five walking sticks, three ear trumpets and one eye patch. The Earl of Longford, who carries an enormous magnifying glass, has been sitting in the Lords for 53 years...
...evidence are painted onto the sides of a tricked-up Rambler with its name--Impatience--emblazoned on its sides. Long lines of eager participants inch forward slowly, racing their motors eagerly. After negotiating a path between the bumpers of the cars crowding the waiting ramp, visitors cross a barren patch of dirt to get to the bleachers. Pot-bellied silhouettes with gleaming headphones and walkie-talkies loom ominously from the dark hulk of a conning tower, floodlights throw stark shadows, and arching billows of steam and smoke uncoil overhead. It's only too easy to imagine being picked off from...
...downloaded for free, software that enables them to talk to fellow computer owners through their PCs, although if you go this route, you will probably also need a sound card and microphone. Others prefer to make computer-to-telephone calls using Web services like IDT's Net2Phone that patch them through to any phone in the world for about 10[cents] a minute. I've been holding out for a gadget that will let me make long-distance Internet calls without using my PC at all. That's where the Aplio (pronounced ah-plee-oh) fits...
...know that global temperatures are up, and one of the things people worry about with global warming is that the icecaps could melt enough to put New York, for example, under water," says Elmer-Dewitt. Instead of being a patch of warm weather, it's a matter of a change in climate, and as Elmer-Dewitt says, "In the dispute over the effects of burning hydrocarbons, there's nothing like an iceberg the size of Delaware to get the world's attention...
Maybe you'd better cancel that vacation to Antarctica. The bald patch in the ozone layer above the South Pole is bigger than ever this year, NASA scientists announced Tuesday. It's now about 10.4 million square miles -- a little bigger than North America -- and that's 5 percent bigger than the previous record set in 1996. And while the quantity of the ultraviolet-ray-blocking gas in the affected area is not as thin as it has been, according to the agency, "the lowest amounts of ozone are likely to be seen in the next week...