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...fact that the world is warming, in short, is unmistakable, and the argument made by some scientists that it's just a natural phenomenon has been dashed by new evidence. The pattern of warming, according to the latest climate research, is just what you'd expect if human activity were responsible. Thus, these effects will almost certainly speed up as greenhouse gases continue to accumulate in the atmosphere. Many scientists have predicted that average temperatures will go up from 2[degrees]F to 9[degrees]F by the end of the next century. An increase at the higher...
Thaler was experiencing a phenomenon that anesthesiologists delicately call "awareness." These unexpected wake-ups occur in at least 40,000 of the nation's 20 million annual surgeries, according to Emory University anesthesiologist Peter Sebel, who has studied the problem. In most cases the pain-killers keep working, and all the patient feels is the unnerving pressure of a scalpel cutting and scraping. But, Sebel estimates conservatively, in at least 400 such awareness accidents, the pain breaks through the veil of drugs. It's possible, say other experts, that the number of patients who wake up each year to excruciating...
...most recent book Women, Poverty and AIDS, he discusses why poor women of color have become victims of AIDS and how doctors, social workers, public health workers and others understand this phenomenon...
...rules of sitcoms generally require that the star and the lead share not only their first names but also their sexual proclivities). The coming-out episode became the highest-rated regular program on ABC for the entire season. Suddenly, after years of only middling success, Ellen was a cultural phenomenon--the first series on television in which the main character was gay. That left a challenge: Now what...
Former Assistant Professor of History Patricia N. Limerick found the phenomenon of slackerhood so pervasive that she wrote an article on what she calls the "Harvard phantom...