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Only a decade ago, the debate over global warming dealt mainly with whether it was a real problem or a Chicken Little scare story. In theory it made sense: we are burning more and more coal and oil; coal and oil generate carbon dioxide gas; carbon dioxide traps the sun's heat like the glass of a greenhouse. In theory, therefore, the earth's temperature should be on the rise--with potentially disastrous consequences that could include inundated coastlines, drastically altered weather, severe disturbances to agriculture, and tropical diseases' pushing into new territory. But the effect was still too small...
...will be in Chile, whose grapes were ranked the 11th most contaminated produce item on American shelves by the Environmental Working Group, basing its statistics on USDA tests. With scant regulation, there is no reason to think Chilean grapes will not continue to have undetected problems, like the cyanide scare that caused a brief governmental ban on Chilean grapes in the late 1980s...
Just how much of a scare did Harvard give UNC last Saturday by virtue of being down only a goal? UNC has established itself as such a dominant, winning program that they are not used to games being that close--especially from an Ivy League team...
...CHRISTMAS WISH] To scare up more than Alien 3's $55 million
...automation isn't just about the bottom line. As the market has ripened into a $7 billion-a-year industry, manufacturers are having more fun with their wares--from self-warming toilet seats to a "barking dog" device to scare prowlers. Now if only there were a gizmo that would serve breakfast...