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...sliver of land that juts above the Antarctic Circle--has been rapidly warming, the vast empty spaces of East Antarctica, repository of the greatest ice sheet on earth, appear to be doing the opposite. "Here we have a continent that is so important to our future," says earth scientist Peter Doran of the University of Illinois at Chicago, "and we can't even agree on what's been going on there for the past few decades...
Wins by the squad and two saber fencers could not make up for the foil event, which Harvard coach Peter Brand termed a “killer...
Harvard coach Peter Brand used his deep bench, and most Crimson fencers saw action at some point...
...Norbu with a slight hint of reproach. "I can't figure out why it's taking me so many days to get back." The director pats him softly on the back. "I don't know what to say to him anymore," he confides. "He's like Chauncey Gardner, the Peter Sellers character in Being There." Later that night, when it finally does come time for the apple man to leave, he gives half of his salary back to the rinpoche, asking that it be saved so he can have a proper cremation when he dies...
...about a consensus that will satisfy the demands of capitalism and piety. Holy places attract big markets and arouse intense emotions. Jesus was so offended by the unseemly spectacle of commerce in the temple that he cast out the merchants and money changers, but today the piazza of St. Peter's in Rome teems with vendors selling plastic Piet?s. Paths are many; profit motive...