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Nature can be cruel, but sometimes it gets some help. The Mara River was especially high this year, after the heavy rains that flooded parts of Africa, killing hundreds of people and uprooting thousands more. Climatologists are pointing to the downpours as proof that predictions that Africa will suffer the most from global warming and climate change are already coming true. The human toll is what makes all the headlines, but the consequences for Africa's wildlife is just as drastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Warming: Bad News for Gnus | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

...even committed to running again yet so the term "opponent" hardly applies to Massa. "I would hope that the Democratic majority, who controls the agenda, would stop playing politics with a bill like this and would bring a bill back that would actually be acceptable to a veto-proof majority of the House," Kuhl said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Hay Over the Health Care Veto | 10/2/2007 | See Source »

...this one belongs on American Idol. Hopefully this song is just an aberration and the start of a Ja Rule-like career trajectory. Grade: C Sean Kingston – “Beautiful Girls” Moderate vocoding on mid-tempo R&B seems like a fool-proof template for radio hits; I’m surprised that it took this long for someone more appealing than Akon or T-Pain to cash in. Lyrically, Sean’s track is tough but treacly, and manages to pull off using the word “suicidal?...

Author: By Eric L. Fritz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer Songs To 'Superman' To | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...Russian polymath born near the northern coastal city of Arkhangel'sk, runs under the Pole from north of Canada's Ellesmere Island and Denmark's Greenland to the New Siberian Islands of Russia. Each of the three countries hopes the ridge's contours and rock content will throw up proof that it is an extension of the continental shelf rather than a strictly deep-ocean formation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight for the Top of the World | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

...event, it is hardly as if Russia were the only nation to see the Arctic as a place to burnish national pride. The Norwegians have their new gas field, and Denmark is pursuing proof of its own claims just as doggedly as the Russians - though in a more consensual, Scandinavian mode. The Danes enlisted both a Swedish and a Russian icebreaker for its expedition to the largely uncharted waters north of Greenland to document what Science Minister Helge Sander refers to as "our hopefully justified claim of a continental shelf from Greenland toward the North Pole." The Danes know that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight for the Top of the World | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

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