Word: polarization
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...Perhaps Liscow has a point: While it’s generally agreed that trees and polar ice caps are good to have around, environmental issues tend to bring hefty initial price tags. As Boas Professor of International Economics Richard N. Cooper says, “We do have competing uses for the funds, so you want to be sure that when you save energy you do it in a cost efficient...
...Tomorrow,” which saw a shivering Jake Gyllenhaal racing against time through the frozen streets of Manhattan. The theory has its roots in a process known as the thermohaline circulation, by which ocean currents move heat from the equator to the northern regions of the globe. If polar ice caps were to melt and add water to the Atlantic, then this circulation of heat might be halted and cause cooling in the north...
...Earth's End Global polar expedition kicks...
...Polar Arctic levels of chilling out are available from Tacchini's fluidly flexible Polar seating system, designed by London company PearsonLloyd. Seats and armrests can be configured in six different setups, so there's always a new angle to admire. Inspired by "the shearing planes and fractal quality" of ice floes, this Polar expedition makes an ideal base camp at a party. www.tacchini.it
...soon as Summers was out, speculation about his likely successor began. The conventional wisdom in the election of a Harvard president is that the Corporation nearly always elects someone who is the polar opposite of the most recent occupant of the office. In 1701, in seeking to find a successor to the aggressively pious Increase Mather, Class of 1656, the Corporation finally ended up in 1708 with John Leverett, Class of 1680, Harvard’s first lay president and its first lawyer. Cotton Mather, Class of 1678, who had hoped to succeed his father, was so furious at this...