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Nevertheless, adaptation has implicitly emerged on the American agenda, thanks to Hurricane Katrina. The earth's weather system is too complex to pin blame for Katrina definitively on global warming. But unusually strong hurricanes like Katrina are exactly what scientists expect to see--along with fiercer heat waves, harsher droughts, heavier rains and rising sea levels--as global warming intensifies. If the nation is serious about rebuilding New Orleans and its neighbors, it must make them as resilient to global warming as possible. "We have to fight for New Orleans," says Beverly Wright, director of the Deep South Center...
...last battle, Leonidas gets an enemy arrow in each tit, and soon he's Xerxes' pin cushion. The image may remind you of Saint Sebastian in a medieval painting, or Toshiro Mifune in Kurosawa's Throne of Blood. To me it recalled some of the more extreme photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe...
...catch his bullet shells as they were ejected from the rifle before they hit the ground. Golden Boy Hicks thought it was childish and stupid and absolutely refused. All that happened was he was told to go back to [our accommodation]. Golden Boy was probably thinking of 'pulling the pin' as he would always say until Golden Boy and Hudaifah had a nice little chat and patched things up. Whereas if everybody else did that they would be thrown off the course (like some Turkistanis were if I remember rightly). Yep. That little runt David Matthew Hicks Al-Qaedah...
...going into [the EIWAs].”Juniors Bobby Latessa (157 lb.) and Matt Button (165 lb.) both won by one-point margins to give Harvard the lead.Freshman Fred Rowsey lost 8-4 at 174, but sophomore Louis Caputo (184 lb.) gave the Crimson a cushion with a pin of his opponent in 5:11.Bucknell won the next two matches at 197 and 285 to tie the final score.COLUMBIA 27, HARVARD 16Harvard’s second Ivy opponent of the weekend dealt the Crimson its second straight loss as Columbia improved to 3-2 in the Ivies, good for second...
...felt drawn into her inner circle after the first few songs.Jones later moved to the center of the stage and brought out her band. In contrast to Jones herself, the rest of the band members were all male and all young. One guitarist was wearing a black and orange pin-striped suit with a bright teal tie, another was dressed like a 1950s gangster, and the third looked like an Urban Outfitters version of a Buddhist monk. Standing in the middle of this motley crew, surrounded by an exorbitant amount of various instruments, Jones looked like a little girl lost...