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Humans are feeling the heat too. In Alaska, melting permafrost (occasionally hastened by construction) has produced "roller coaster" roads, power lines tilted at crazy angles and houses sinking up to their window sashes as the ground liquefies. In parts of the wilderness, the signal is more clear: wetlands, ponds and grasslands have replaced forests, and moose have moved in as caribou have moved out. On the Mackenzie River delta in Canada's Northwest Territories, Arctic-savvy Inuit inhabitants have watched with dismay as warming ground melted the traditional freezers they cut into the permafrost for food storage. Permafrost provides stiffening...
...frivolous. "We're going to be second-guessed about this forever. But based on the number of vehicles in service, the number of incidents was statistically insignificant," says Ken Zino, one of Nasser's senior advisers. "We get sued every day. A lawsuit by itself isn't considered a signal of any kind...
Researchers don't know exactly how a child's body decides to start the two-to-three-year process of becoming a biological adult. But they do know the first stage begins in the brain, when a chemical signal, called gonadotropin-releasing hormone, unleashes a series of biochemical reactions in the body. Soon girls will notice a swelling of tissue around the nipples. (Menstruation usually begins a year or two later.) In boys, the penis and testes start to grow larger...
...protesters got up and slinked away quickly between a photographer and a traffic signal, moving down 13th Street...
...Bush interpretation says the choice of Cheney sends a signal of interesting self-confidence. Cheney is the choice of a candidate focused not on running for president but on governing after he wins. Cheney serves no ideological or geographic function on the ticket. But in the basic constitutional way, he is an ideal vice president - a manifestly able man qualified to be interim president should something happen to President George W. Bush...