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Anyone who has taken a general-science course knows that Earth's most important elements move in cycles, circulating from sky to land and sea and back again. The human presence has become so dominant that we have disrupted even these most basic mechanisms of the planet. Most familiar, of course, is what we have done to the carbon cycle. Because we are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere much faster than land and seas can reabsorb it, the accumulating gas is trapping heat and upsetting the climate. The result is not only rising seas and fiercer storms but also...
...think Harvard may have realized that this phenomenon was getting away from it," he says. "[Faculty venturing out on their own] might dilute Harvard's ability to be a unique institution--which I think is a little like Chicken Little fearing that the sky was falling...
...company. For Epps, Love & Basketball is his shot at big-time stardom. "I look at Denzel and Wesley, Cuba and Will, and figure it must be lonely at the top for those guys right now," he says, laughing as he points his heavily tattooed arm toward the sky...
When a baby is born in Rwanda, a traditional ceremony takes place on the eighth day of the child's life. Banana beer is served, and the community gathers as the newborn is brought out and held up to the sky. The infant is scrutinized, and names are suggested by family, friends and neighbors until the father hears one that sounds right...
...SKY IS FALLING Iridium was the world's first truly global communications system, providing wireless phone service anywhere on Earth via an orbiting network of satellites. When the service didn't catch on, the company went bankrupt, and Iridium announced it would allow all 66 satellites, launched at a cost of $5 billion, to burn up in the sky. Now a group of enterprising technophiles called Save Our Satellites is attempting to buy the satellites, on the ground that they constitute one of history's greatest engineering feats. If you want to help raise funds, sign up at saveiridium.com...