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...interest rates will rise to a fixed rate of 6.8 percent for student loans and 8.5 percent for loans to parents, Day said...
...standard argument against taking action against global warming is that it might not really be so bad. After all, even the most sophisticated computer models can?t say with any certainty whether the temperature will rise by a couple of degrees Fahrenheit over the next half-century or whether the increase will be five times that-or somewhere in between...
...that warm to be very bad indeed. There isn?t any new science in the study, titled ?Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change?: it?s a summary of research presented at a conference of the same name last year. But it does point out that the temperature need only rise about halfway to the worst-case scenario for such catastrophic events as the melting of the Greenland ice cap, or, worse yet, the West Antarctic ice sheet. The latter event could raise sea levels a whopping 5 meters, or about 16 ft., which could drown huge swaths of low-lying coastland...
...four, five, and six skiers really stepped up in the slalom.” The ninth-place finish in the season’s opening event comes after a 2005 season in which Harvard finished tenth in every carnival it attended. The team looks to continue its rise next weekend at the Vermont Carnival. “We tend to progress and get much better as the season goes on,” Basilico said. “We’ll really kind of hit the learning curve and get back into our top form...
...puzzles even Harper's supporters, who watched him transform himself from a crusader for limited government into a family-friendly mainstream politician. That shift was partly an expression of pragmatism in a nation that tends to shun extremes. But it also reflected a rare political trait: the ability to rise above the ideological-hothouse atmosphere of Reform Party politics in the west to become a leader capable of attracting support from skeptics. His core economic conservatism is unlikely to have changed as much as some suggest--Harper is not and never will be a Red Tory--but his stolid textbook...