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...including more intense precipitation in some areas, more severe droughts in others (and sometimes, as in the case of the American Southeast, a little of both). And that may well be what's happening at Kilimanjaro. While strongly disputing Thompson's explanation, Georg Kaser of the Institut für Geographie in Innsbruck, Austria, writes that "we are confident that global warming is the ultimate driver of glacier shrinkage on Kilimanjaro due to the strong relation between Indian Ocean dynamics and East African precipitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are Kilimanjaro's Glaciers Fading? | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

White’s speech was part of a series of lectures organized by the Harvard Association of Law and Business. According to Michael R. Rozensher, a second-year student at HLS who organized the event, the goal of the series is to spread awareness of corporate responsibility...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Law Talk Stresses Corporate Responsibility | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...addition, UC President Andrea R. Flores replaced Associate Dean of Student Life Joshua McIntosh on the panel. According to Flores, McIntosh felt the town hall’s discussion was better focused on future J-terms, for which the administration has yet to make firm plans...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UC Holds Holds Town Hall on J-Term | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...students in the Quad who volunteered to have candy on hand were eager to welcome the little guests. “We miss doing this at home,” Cabot resident Nan R. Du ’12 said...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: For Kids, Treats No Trick | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...Biblical scholars would have made R. Crumb - the counterculture cartoonist famous for creating Fritz the Cat - their no. 1 choice for reinterpreting the first book of the Pentateuch. And few among Crumb's cult following would have elected that he spend four of his creative years drawing pictures to go with Sarah Palin's favorite bedside reading. Yet the weird, obsessive, oversexed artist's pictorial interpretation of Genesis, which came out Oct. 19, has shot up best-seller lists: as of this writing, it's no. 1 on the New York Times graphic novel bestseller list and on Amazon.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genesis: The Word According to R. Crumb | 11/1/2009 | See Source »

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