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...Cooke demanded an $86,000 severance package, which led auditors to check her books more closely. "The fact that this amount of money could be siphoned from church coffers in such a brief period while nobody noticed is simply extraordinary," says Ostling. He reports that the money went to slush funds she controlled with her pastor husband, two houses, jewelry, childrens' tuition and an occasional limousine rental. Even as the Cookes allegedly were raiding the till, says Ostling, dwindling donations had forced the 2.5 million-member denomination to cut its national office staff by a third...
...perhaps ominous--change in Antarctica's climate. Over the past 50 years the average temperature on the Antarctic Peninsula has risen 2.5[degrees]C, to -3[degrees]C. That's a much greater increase than for anywhere else in the world. Not only are ice shelves turning to slush, but plant life is also exploding, with vegetation in some spots increasing 25-fold...
...first time in five months, my limbs were exposed to sunlight. Cambridge and its slush-layered streets seemed so far away as I watched the waves outside our balcony...
...money invested there. What the press has reported as a negative -- two-thirds of Mexican stocks owned by foreigners -- she regards as a positive. The U.S. can't afford not to bail out Mexico, and late last week, it offered to do just that with a $7 billion emergency slush fund...
...that; we don't go to the movies, especially Christmas movies, expecting much in the way of useful social commentary. What's really wrong with these pictures -- Attenborough's sweet, smart performance aside -- is that their sentiments are completely predictable and completely unfelt. They're just the standard seasonal slush. You can get the same emotional and imaginative kick staying home and rereading your Christmas cards...