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...SNOW MAN OF ASPEN KEEPING WINTER COOL
...story. If both melted completely, sea levels could rise nearly 220 ft. (72 m). That's a worst-case scenario. But the melting is accelerating, and sea levels are projected to rise gradually, threatening low-lying communities Sources: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Third Assessment Report; NOAA; NASA; National Snow and Ice Data Center; Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center; National Center for Atmospheric Research; U.S. Global Change Research Program; Goddard Institute for Space Studies
...DIED. JADE SNOW WONG, 84, author and ceramicist whose 1950 memoir of her immigrant childhood, Fifth Chinese Daughter, painted a vivid picture of San Francisco's Chinatown in the early 20th century; in San Francisco. Wong wrote the book in her mid-20s after abandoning plans to become a social worker, opting instead to pursue her talent for pottery, which she later described as a means of making herself "free of Chinese culture's relentless subjugation of women...
...wiggles.” Boston’s momentary position relative to the jet stream can wreak havoc on weather forecasts. “Variability of a few hundred miles can make the difference between a storm bringing rain to a region and a storm bringing snow,” said Brian F. Farrell, the Burden professor of meteorology. That makes long-term forecasting particularly tricky. “You can’t predict more than a week or two at a time,” Farrell said. According to Farrell, the jet stream “wanders...
...youth. We are, evidently, the only ones being asked to make sacrifices—both of our lives and from our pocketbooks. The measure raises the debt ceiling by more than the $781 billion required by the administration’s prime magician, Secretary of Treasury John W. Snow, and it leaves promises of future rises—as early as next year—looming menacingly over our heads. All this, while Senators Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), and Susan M. Collins (D-Maine) put forth...