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...form of methane hydrates, can begin to break free. Unlike the permafrost on land, says Shakhova, soil under the sea floor is always hovering at close to the melting point because of its proximity to unfrozen seawater. Anthropogenic (that is, human-caused) warming may be the last straw...
...Culture Wars: The Musical outside the District of Columbia's Superior Court on Wednesday. On one side of the plaza, a group protesting the first day of same-sex marriage licensing in D.C. belted out familiar melodies with political lyrics, bellowing "This is the final straw with God" to the tune of "Ants Go Marching." A few yards away, a group of supporters responded with an impromptu riff on "This Little Light of Mine," drowning their opponents as they sang, "Standing on the side of love, we're gonna see them shine...
...Ratnesar: I agree that there were some false notes, like the overheated, straw-man defense of Elin - she "deserves praise, not blame." Uh, sorry, but who's blaming her? Among those who think she really did go after him with a 9-iron, most would agree with Jesper Parnevik: she should have used a driver. And there was a brief section early in the speech in which he extolled all the good works being done by the Tiger Woods Foundation - while it was nice to hear that those projects will continue, it also felt discordantly self-serving...
...effort to solve the problem, British Justice Secretary Jack Straw recently called on Facebook to shut down the profile pages of more than 30 prisoners who were known to have used the site to target their victims. "The abuse of social-networking sites by prisoners is offensive to public morality and decency," he said. "Updating their profiles within prison is an offense under prison rules, and using them to abuse victims is deplorable." Facebook obliged with the request to remove the pages on Feb. 11, and company officials met with representatives from the Justice Ministry and victims' advocates this week...
That was the last straw for Quincy: he dismissed seven freshmen, one junior, seven seniors—and the entire sophomore class...