Word: polarity
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...getting worse. By 2100, the report predicts, temperatures could rise further still, endangering indigenous Arctic ways of life, destabilizing roads that support mining and oil drilling, disrupting ecosystems, shrinking the ranges of many animals and threatening the very existence of some species, including the polar bear...
ARCTIC POPULATIONS Indigenous people from Alaska to Canada to Siberia rely on fish, polar bears, seals and caribou for food, clothing and trade. As warming imperils these animals, it also threatens a way of life that has been unchanged for centuries...
...attitude better suited to its needs: staggering immaturity. They sported hairdos of unknown origin, beginning with Series MVP Manny Ramirez, whose locks spilled out of his hat like they were trying to abandon ship. The players treated every game as though it was, well, a game. They were the polar opposites of their rivals from New York (no facial hair, no fooling, no fun). They were the anti-Yankees...
...Western Arctic Reserve captured my sympathy. This preserve is the habitat of thousands of species, many rare or endangered. The center of this administration’s proposed oil drilling site, Lake Teshekpuk, is the summer home of millions of migratory birds, as well as caribou, wolves, foxes and polar bears. People live there too. The Inupiat Eskimos have lived in the region for 8,000 years. But despite their long claim to the region, the Bush administration doesn’t seem to care...
Official blogs are the polar opposite. Where people like Christopher Allbritton are trying to transcend mainstream media (with a fraction of their resources), official blogs are attempting to repackage them. Of the three major American 24-hour news outlets—MSNBC, CNN and Fox—two have dedicated staff members to permanent blogs (CNN is still lacking in this regard). Fox in particular devotes a substantial section of its website to its daily selection of five or six blogs. They seem to be mainly targeted at generating interest in Fox’s various news-talk shows...