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...turns out that a scientist can see the future by watching four-year-olds interact with a marshmallow. The researcher invites the children, one by one, into a plain room and begins the gentle torment. You can have this marshmallow right now, he says. But if you wait while I run an errand, you can have two marshmallows when I get back. And then he leaves...
...that ended the last Ice Age and with perhaps equally profound effects on climate. Huge swaths of densely populated land could be inundated by rising seas. Entire ecosystems could vanish as rainfall and temperature patterns shift. Droughts, floods and storms could become more severe. Says Michael Oppenheimer, a senior scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund: "I think this is a watershed moment in the public debate on global warming...
Some researchers argue that even with these caveats the report overstates the case. Says Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric scientist at M.I.T.: "The margin of error in these models is a factor of 10 or more larger than the effect you're looking...
...Arnold S. Relman, a professor emeritus at the Medical School who chaired the ad hoc committee investigating Mack, has argued that the fact that Mack is a scientist means that he must be held to a higher standard...
Though the FBI said its internal review has uncovered no evidence of wrongdoing, the Justice Department announced it was looking into allegations made by FBI scientist Frederic Whitehurst that personnel at the agency's storied crime lab may have provided misleading or fabricated evidence in a number of major cases. One set of defense attorneys--O.J. Simpson's--wasted no time in saying they would seek to call Whitehurst as a witness in their case to undermine FBI tests and testimony introduced by prosecutors...