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...tightly knit artistic community can't be overlooked. I know of at least two other universities of greatly different natures--namely Brown University and George Washington University--that also aren't known for an overwhelming academic commitment to drama. Still, they manage to put out a steady stream of experimental student productions. In fact, their dramatic communities seem to fall on the other extreme of social normalization--i.e., "traditional" stagings and "traditional" plays are looked down upon. Such attitudes are every bit as confining as our own theatrical prejudices at Harvard, but they at least show that undergraduates are certainly...
...Never Ending Stream...
Even greater climate change could be on the way. Growing numbers of scientists fear that the warming trend will so disrupt ocean circulation patterns that the Gulf Stream, the current that warms large parts of the northern hemisphere, could temporarily shut down. If that happens, global warming would, ironically, produce global cooling--and bring on a deep freeze...
...would that produce cooling? Ordinarily the conveyor is propelled by the pull created by masses of water sinking in the North Atlantic. When this pull diminishes, the movement of warm water north in the Gulf Stream could slow or stall, driving down temperatures in Europe and North America, and possibly elsewhere...
...happened before. Roughly 12,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, a natural warming sent freshwater from melting glaciers flowing out of the St. Lawrence River into the North Atlantic, all but shutting down the Gulf Stream and plunging Europe into a 1,300-year deep freeze. The more that becomes known about this period, named the Younger Dryas (after a tundra plant), the more scientists fear that the rapid melting of sea ice could cause the same catastrophe again. Only next time, writes geophysicist Penn State's Richard Alley in a forthcoming book, Two-Mile...