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...move with surprising speed, and so can nature. What few people reckoned on was that global climate systems are booby-trapped with tipping points and feedback loops, thresholds past which the slow creep of environmental decay gives way to sudden and self-perpetuating collapse. Pump enough CO2 into the sky, and that last part per million of greenhouse gas behaves like the 212th degree Fahrenheit that turns a pot of hot water into a plume of billowing steam. Melt enough Greenland ice, and you reach the point at which you're not simply dripping meltwater into the sea but dumping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Warming Heats Up | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

...with him,'' he says. Nikita and her boyfriend Michael managed to get into the hallway under mattresses, but Jenny was caught. "I heard this explosion and I looked up and saw the roof suddenly sucked 30 m up into the air, spinning around and around, and above it the sky was a weird electric blue. I felt myself being sucked upward," she says. "It was like a twister.'' Karl thought the worst: "I heard this scream and then nothing. She's gone. She's been taken.'' Aden was sure he was going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weathering the Storms | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

...only planes in the sky belonged to U.S. carriers, the NetJets snobs might have a point. Three of the largest American airlines began 2006 in bankruptcy. Meanwhile, other carriers like Virgin Atlantic and Emirates have added such amenities as in-flight massages and Four Seasons-style suites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mile-High Style | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

...apparent normalcy, to both the Palestinians and Israelis, of this institutionalized humiliation and apartheid sickened me. For the life of me, I could not justify the brutality of a giant wall littered with barbed-wire, electric fences and armed teenage soldiers. The massive concrete abomination simply steals the sky...

Author: By Rami R. Sarafa | Title: The Broken Road to the Holy Land | 3/23/2006 | See Source »

...curriculum. The report simply outlines the recommendations of the committee but also encourages student and faculty debate.Yet without a mandatory course in ethics, students may end up missing out on one of their most valuable educational experiences at Harvard. “Moral reasoning is like sky-diving,” Associate Professor of Government and of Social Studies Glyn Morgan writes in an email. “It’s exhilarating and risky...

Author: By Kimberly E. Gittleson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Moral No More, Maybe | 3/22/2006 | See Source »

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