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...Last Friday, one caller, later identified as Lin Liang Ren, from Fuzhou city, China, was convicted of the manslaughter of 21 Chinese men and women. (Authorities believe another two died that night, but their bodies have never been found.) Lin, the "gangmaster" of the cocklers, had misjudged the ferocious speed of the bay's tides. Each of the Chinese - almost all of them from Fujian province, which has seen its natives emigrate all over the world for generations - would have pledged some $30,000 to one of China's notorious snakehead gangs for the promise of a better life. Instead...
...glaciers, it turns out, can 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...
...only concession Maulavizada is prepared to make is to speed up the trial process. "Because this is a complex case we would like to get it over with quickly - the hearing will be this week," he said...
...these reasons, it is unsurprising to find statistical evidence that men and women reason differently. While men excel at spatial tasks and mathematical reasoning, women tend to perform better on tests of perceptual speed and mathematical calculations. This is not to say one gender is smarter than another—or that one can accurately predict the behavior or ability of individuals—but rather that sex differences correlate with differences in the means of the respective populations...
...Greg said. “We could go on forever.”And when it came to what describing what Greg does best, Steve almost did just that.“He’s fast,” he said. “Just fast; flat-out speed. Every year there’s a lacrosse magazine that always rates the fastest players, and he comes out on top every year.”“In high school, you just run by everybody,” Harvard coach Scott Andersen said. “There...