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...trend toward a warmer world has unquestionably begun. Worldwide temperatures have climbed more than .6?C over the past century, and the 1990s were the hottest decade on record. After analyzing data going back at least two decades on everything from air and ocean temperatures to the spread and retreat of wildlife, the IPCC asserts that this slow but steady warming has had an impact on 420 physical processes and on animal and plant species on all continents...
...unwinnable point. The U.S. had no intention of stopping the flights. Jiang had maneuvered onto strategic ground that was impossible to hold. The U.S. drove the lesson home by offering a limited and lawyerly apology that forced Jiang into a humiliating retreat. China's military did find a way to milk the event for some national credit, most notably when Defense Minister Chi Haotian met Wang Wei's widow and demanded that the U.S. not "shirk responsibility...
...When Walden conducts seminars - whether in Italy or India - they sell out months in advance. "She's one of the crown jewels," says India Supera, executive director of the Feathered Pipe yoga retreat in Helena, Mont. Yoga is more popular than ever, and Supera credits Walden's early teaching videos with helping move it into the mainstream...
...Perlstein offers an intriguing thesis: While Goldwater may have been the biggest popular-vote loser in American presidential-race history, the movement which garnered him the 1964 Republican nomination laid the groundwork for the conservative revolution that led to the election of Ronald Reagan 16 years later, signaling the retreat of the modern welfare state as we know...
...film’s diversity of tones and attitudes constitutes a sizable portion of its appeal. The material in Conversation For a Dollar is delivered in such a palatable and speedy style that it’s difficult for the viewer to find the time to retreat into one’s mind long enough to determine the value of all of the opinions that the hero has dished out. If, upon later doing so, one finds that the film’s most pleasing moments were tempered more by a healthy sense of the bizarre...