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Ironically, the same greenhouse effect that may be so dislocating made earth hospitable to life in the first place. Without a heat-trapping blanket of naturally occurring CO2, the planet would have an average surface temperature of only 0 degrees F instead of 59 degrees F. Reason: like the glass panes of a greenhouse, CO2 molecules are transparent to visible light, allowing the sun's rays to warm the earth's surface. But when the surface gives off its excess heat, it does so not with visible light but with infrared radiation. And since CO2 absorbs infrared rays, some...
Nuclear power is more controversial; until recently the mere mention of it made environmentalists blanch. They had good reason, considering the accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the problem of radioactive waste and the horror stories about U.S. weapons plants. But the greenhouse effect is forcing some antinuclear activists to rethink their position. "I was a strong opponent of the nuclear program in France," said Brice Lalonde, France's Environment Under Secretary and a former presidential candidate on the Ecologist Party ticket. "Now I am reassessing the whole thing." France gets more than 70% of its electricity from nuclear...
...Tribune four years ago, gloves flowed in, from Europe to India: leather gloves, driving gloves, fleece-lined gloves, children's gloves, even work gloves. Some people send pairs, but most often they send only rights or lefts (the rights outnumber the lefts by four to one, for some curious reason). Some also send cash, which is quickly returned "because I am not an organized charity...
...singular of ravioli) that is a $36 hot ticket at San Domenico, the best new Italian restaurant to open in Manhattan in the past five years. The large silky square of pasta enfolds spinach, ricotta cheese and a whole egg yolk that poaches as the raviolo cooks. But the reason for the price lies in the topping of hazelnut butter and a fine, if sparse, mincing of white truffles...
...progress is too slow. Additional spending on contraceptive research and development is badly needed. In 1972 global spending was estimated at $74 million annually, a paltry sum compared with many Third World military budgets. The funding in 1983 was just $57 million. One reason for the decrease was the Reagan Administration's antiabortion policy. U.S. contributions to international population-assistance programs declined 20% between 1985 and 1987, to about $230 million...