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Insurers have already had an impact on the debate about climate change through their actions in the marketplace. Soaring premiums and insurance cancellations alert residents of coastal areas that changes in weather patterns can have profound economic consequences. With 50% of the U.S. population living within 50 miles of a coastline, ordinary people may also begin to draw a similar connection between climate change and their own well- being, should the windstorms continue...
Neolithic man, the Maya, life's origins -- at first glance, such subjects seem to have little in common with urgent reports datelined Hebron or Sarajevo. But make no mistake, the news value is profound. To cite this week's cover story, which Alexander edited: the conclusion of a recent scientific paper -- that Homo erectus wandered out of Africa nearly a million years earlier than was previously believed -- requires a change in our fundamental thinking about human evolution, and hence the way we understand ourselves. When the information is that important, Alexander muses, it doesn't matter "whether Homo erectus...
...having discarded our CIA dreams, we turn to the next best thing--uh, gossip. We don't have any advice on that either, sorry. (It's midterms. Who cares what your roomates are doing?) Instead, we leave you with this profound thought to digest over breakfast: where have we gone in the past 25 years? Think about...
...infinitely greater importance of supporting Russian democracy. "The rush to judgment of the last couple of days, primarily here on Capitol Hill," said Kansas Representative Dan Glickman, chairman of the House intelligence committee, "to suspend aid to * Russia because of this case is misguided. That would have far more profound and damaging ramifications on this critical relationship -- and thus on ourselves -- than the damage done by Mr. Ames...
...five, from 1992's "letter from a lifeboat" up to the just-released "Top 40 Sculpture," on the Sugargliders' new singles compilation We're All Trying to Get There. The "Lifeboat" single was forgettable, but the entire rest of the repertoire, given undivided attention, will slowly become profound and moving. One of the reasons lies in the Sugargliders' ability--the rarest thing in the world--to integrate melodic neatness with the aforementioned back-beats. "Reinventing Penicillin," for example, could be a good slowed-down New Order song, and "Trumpet Play" nonchalantly imports a soft "jazz" trumpet and jazz-club background...