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...from lack of preparation. Segal fears not much has changed since his experience as a freshman at Kenyon College in 2004, during the closely contested Ohio race. He manned the 10-hour polling lines on campus, dispensing water, pizza and umbrellas to the stalwarts who stuck around in the rain to cast their votes. To him, the inadequate planning was obvious: registration had surged since 2000, he notes, but the campus precinct had been allocated no additional voting machines. That left two machines for 1,300 voters. "The media angle was, Aren't these young kids heroic to have stood...
While the impact of climate change on human populations is likely to be dire, we're pretty good at adapting to change overall. Animals, however, are not. When their habitats change irrevocably - when the rain forest dries up or cool mountains in tropical zones heat up - animals may simply go extinct. A recent study in Science demonstrates how that can happen. Robert Colwell, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Connecticut, analyzed data from nearly 2,000 species of plants, insects and fungi in the tropics, where organisms often lack the ability to escape warming temperatures by going north...
...prison record. He has not built a career on four-letter words. So much of our blues boils down to CNN: you go home, you cut on the TV, and always you're reduced to skyrocketing murder rates, singers on trial for defiling children and overvalued athletes making it rain. All black news is bad news, and lately we've just been very tired...
...soon soaked by a deluge that eventually delayed play and then amped up the difficulty of the already arduous Yale course once play resumed. Scores from day three, in some cases, were swollen by the wet weather. “For the first hour, we were playing in the rain,” freshman Mark Pollak said. “We were sopping wet, and then we were called back in and then sent back out to play with wet clubs and grips. The course played at least 300 yards longer than the first two rounds...
...Brustein says. “That’s a marvelous combination.”This summer, Paulus directed a revival of “Hair” for Shakespeare in Central Park, a free annual event in New York City. Under the moon, in the rain, and even during lightning storms, “Hair” presented audience members with an opportunity to sing, dance, and experience what the musical claims to be about: freedom and hope for the future. Staged right after the Democratic and Republican conventions, the show was especially timely. On closing night, audience members...