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Last month a woman who worked for the Stranger, an alternative weekly in Seattle, quit in a huff. She had been writing for the paper's blog, the Slog. The problem was the comments people were making on her posts. She couldn't stand them anymore. "The word I would use is cruel," she wrote in her sign...
...relationship as a way to get out of the marriage. That is a real reason. They're afraid to leave the marriage, and they're hoping that an affair will end things. Either the spouse will kick them out or the lover will give them the courage to quit...
...paper that came out last October in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences was so alarming. CO2, the scientists concluded, is piling up faster than ever in the air, not only because our emissions continue to rise but also because the ocean and land have quit sopping up as much as they used to. Apparently, they've had enough...
Dialing back emissions now will thus be less effective than we hope, because a growing share of what we still produce will stay in the sky rather than being absorbed by the oceans and land. The answer may be to quit thinking about solving climate change as only a matter of cutting greenhouse gases off at the source and to start considering how to clean up the mess that's already there. After all, when a busted pipe floods your home, you do more than just fix the leak and let evaporation take care of the water...
Hood may not have the board he wanted; his decision last November to quit when his five-year term ends in September 2009 means it's unlikely he ever will. But by orchestrating Oxford's mammoth $2.5 billion campaign, he'll have played no small part in increasing the university's competitiveness in the years to come. On June 18, the university pocketed a $50 million donation from Michael Moritz, a U.S.-based venture capitalist, one of its biggest ever. He has done his bit for the dreaming spires. For the remaining Oxford alumni out there, the question is: Have...