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...feedback loops, thresholds past which the slow creep of environmental decay gives way to sudden and self-perpetuating collapse. Pump enough CO2 into the sky, and that last part per million of greenhouse gas behaves like the 212th degree Fahrenheit that turns a pot of hot water into a plume of billowing steam. Melt enough Greenland ice, and you reach the point at which you're not simply dripping meltwater into the sea but dumping whole glaciers. By one recent measure, several Greenland ice sheets have doubled their rate of slide, and just last week the journal Science published...
...graphic novel, an intellectual nom-de-plume for the comic book, has recently been a cash cow for Hollywood’s big-budget film studios. Blockbusters like “Spiderman,” “X-Men,” and the “Fantastic Four” have merged Hollywood’s A-list with the action-saturated plotlines of childhood fiction...
...recognize the name of Samuel M. Zornow ’08, but his alias is well-known among Harvard party-goers: He goes by the nom de plume of “DJ Shiftee,” and he might be Harvard hip-hop’s best hope...
...plume of acrid smoke is drifting eastward after a huge explosion rocked the Buncefield oil depot in Hemel Hempstead, 20 miles northwest of London, at 6:03 a.m. local time Sunday. The blast was heard more than 50 miles away. Windows and doors were blown out and walls were cracked in nearby houses, whose residents have been evacuated by police. ?Keep out of the flume, keep away from the area,? said Frank Whiteley, Chief Constable of Hertfordshire police, in a hastily called press conference. He also warned that some smaller explosions might occur later today as other tanks...
Robert M. Koenig ’06-’07 described seeing “the plume of steam from where the lava was still pouring into the ocean” on one outing. “It was beautiful,” he said...