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...conference was fruitful, if a bit depressing. What's clear is that the sheer speed of the changes already taking place due to warming - like the mountain pine beetle infestation - are catching us off guard. So too is the scale required to properly adapt to climate change, which will almost certainly continue for decades into the future. Conservationists are used to planning five, 10, maybe 15 years ahead, but we need to begin making moves today to adapt to changes that warming will bring decades hence. "Climate change will affect agriculture, water resources, forestry, transportation, waste management, energy generation, national...
...years after the birth of the houses, the College embarked on a $35 million residential renovation—the largest in University history up until that point. The ambitious plans were beset with complicating factors: the accommodation of current students, the funding of such a large-scale project, and the establishment of realistic time frames would not be simple...
...We’re starting on a modest scale in order that we learn it properly and don’t get ourselves in a pickle,” Coburn said...
...many observers, the city of Abyei, on the fault-line between North and South Sudan, is the key to the country's future. On May 14, it exploded. What appeared to have been a small incident between rival militias on its outskirts quickly escalated into full-scale fighting, and there was little a small band of U.N. peacekeepers could do to contain...
...Others suggested that the lobbyist problem will make fund raising even harder and has slowed the efforts to scale McCain's lean, insurgent campaign to the size he and his party will need to win in the fall. Back in 2004, Bush built a massive top-down hierarchy that brought a corporate efficiency to politics. The McCain model, by contrast, has been designed to reflect McCain's insurgent personality. While the Bush campaign channeled all decision-making through its northern Virginia headquarters, the McCain campaign has established a decentralized network of 11 "regional campaign managers," who will separately direct much...