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...rise in sea level would be truly catastrophic if it happened by the end of this century. But there is no suggestion in the study that the rise is imminent. "We can only give a thousand-year average," says Kopp, meaning that it might well take a millennium for sea level to go up that much. The rise would be inevitable, though: even if we cut back emissions today, concentrations of greenhouse gases will continue to increase, albeit more slowly. As a result, if temperatures go up by as much...
...there's no guarantee that the rise in sea level would necessarily be smooth. If ice sheets begin sliding into the sea faster than they have in the recent past - as they seem to be doing already - sea level could go up more quickly than average, reaching a catastrophic point relatively early, then staying there. "From our analysis," says Kopp, "we really can't know how long it would take." In short, the science is still uncertain - but less so than before, and moving in a direction that isn't reassuring...
...with the European Commission, it took a confrontational approach, as if it never believed it would be tamed by Brussels bureaucrats. But the tussles have cost Microsoft dearly: the E.U. watchdog has fined the company $2.4 billion for illegal business practices over the years. At the same time, the rise of companies like Apple and Google - which both enjoy quasi-monopolies in other technology sectors - creates a new challenge for Microsoft. Indeed, as Microsoft, Apple and Google branch out beyond their core services and into new territory, they have shifted their strategies: instead of fighting regulators, they now want...
...critics rather than denizens of the arena, but the conservative columnist David Frum - a Bush Administration speechwriter, who coined the phrase "axis of evil" - honored his intellectual principles by standing up against the radical excesses of his party's demagogues. Let's hope that other honorable conservatives rise to join Frum and Graham in rebuilding an intellectually supple and civil, and essential, Republican Party. (No health care reform Teddys will be issued until the final vote, although Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon certainly deserves one for his bipartisan efforts over the years, the most creative work on health reform that...
...pilot and crew], they are victims of circumstance. They are often paid extra money to accept a flight, often using planes that they know are not entirely safe. But they are so desperate for the money that they agree to take the flight," Griffiths says. (See pictures of the rise of Muammar Gaddafi...