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Emanuel and others believe that even if greenhouse heating does not spawn more hurricanes, it may make the ones that do occur more powerful. In an extensive study published this summer in the journal Nature, Emanuel surveyed roughly 4,500 storms brewed in the North Atlantic and western north Pacific since the middle of the 20th century. He found that the average power of the storms increased 50% in those 50 years. It's a change that, he has little doubt, is linked to global warming. A slightly weaker Katrina may have made all the difference to New Orleans, where...
...embrace of the blogs has helped spawn a new kind a staffer on Capitol Hill: the Internet outreach specialist. In Reid?s office, Ari Rabin-Havt, 27, who worked for Moveon.org and on the Internet team for John Kerry?s presidential campaign, spends his entire day reading blogs, responding to hundreds of e-mails from bloggers and figuring out how to get stories favorable to Senate Democrats onto the blogs. The relationship is helpful for both sides; Rabin-Havt will feed documents on key issues to the bloggers, which they like because it helps them post faster, and the close...
...Iraq is a strategically important country in the Middle East, a region whose resources the whole world depends on and one that is rife with ruthless dictatorships that spawn much of the world's terrorist activity. So was the war worth it? That depends. Is human freedom worth it? Garry Chapman Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
...expert, but it would be nice to hear that debate from those who are. Jules Kopel-Bailey Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. Iraq is a strategically important country in the Middle East, a region whose resources the whole world depends upon and one that is rife with ruthless dictatorships that spawn much of the world's terrorist activity. So was the war worth it? That depends. Is human freedom worth it? Garry Chapman Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. Your "wide array of experts and thinkers" was largely characterized by hand-wringing, worrywart American élites (save for Tommy Franks) who opined that...
Iraq is a strategically important country in the Middle East, a region whose resources the whole world depends on and one that is rife with ruthless dictatorships that spawn much of the world's terrorist activity. So was the war worth it? That depends--is human freedom worth...