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...running (2003 to 2005), the Paris-based International Federation of Horseracing Authorities ranked him the world's fastest sprinter. And over five seasons of racing, he amassed $8 million in prize money. Yet those numbers, impressive as they are, don't tell the whole story of Silent Witness's rise to eminence...
...Last Mughal argues that the destruction of Zafar's court and the religiously tolerant culture of Mughal Delhi exacerbated divisions between Hindus and Muslims and fueled the rise of Islamic fundamentalism on the subcontinent. Without Zafar, Dalrymple writes, "it would be almost impossible to imagine that Hindu sepoys could ever have rallied to the Red Fort and the standard of a Muslim leader, joining with their Muslim brothers in an attempt to revive the Mughal Empire." By invoking the memory of the last Emperor, Dalrymple reminds Indians of a time when such religious harmony was easy to come...
...work at the time. "I covered every day of Saddam's trial and his execution. Of course people wanted me dead. I ran." Three weeks later, Alaa, 29 - like many interviewed for this article, he did not want his last name to be used - peers out of a high-rise apartment building in Stockholm at sidewalks carpeted with fresh snow, a disorienting contrast with the carnage he has left behind...
Depending on greenhouse-gas emissions, global temperatures will probably rise between about 2?F and 12?F by 2100. If carbon levels double from the preindustrial norm--which many experts deem very likely--the IPCC predicts a warming of about 5?F as well as longer and more intense heat waves...
...report predicts sea levels will rise 7 in. to 23 in. Bad, but not too dire, right? But this assessment doesn't account for the possibility of accelerated glacial melting, which a recent Science study estimated could raise seas more than 4 ft. by the end of the century--enough to swamp low-lying coastal cities...