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...early to know what Jim Murphy will do with the gaping hole on the GMA couch, but early signs suggest a conservative approach. "I don't think the wheel has to be reinvented," says Murphy, who promises no sudden moves. "We owe it to our audience to get this right," he says. Probably wouldn't be bad for the show either...
There's just one problem: that's not how climate change is likely to unfold. Instead, scientists worry about potential tipping points - triggers that, once reached, could lead to sudden and irrevocable changes in the climate, almost without warning. It's the same phenomenon of sudden collapse that can be seen in any number of complex systems that seem perfectly stable, until they're not - ecosystems, financial markets, even epileptic seizures. The trick is to identify the warning signs that indicate a tipping point - and collapse - are about to be reached and to take action to avoid them. (Read "Heroes...
...Catholic faith and his second wife Vicki. He even learned to view the brain cancer that eventually killed him as an odd gift - a gradual fading of a kind that would be easier for his family and friends to come to terms with than the violent and sudden loss of three brothers and a sister, Kathleen. He, at least, was given the gift of time to prepare...
...What John F. Kennedy was: cool under pressure, a shrewd decision maker, an inspiring speaker, a man who could learn from his mistakes. What he wasn't: a devoted husband, a vigorous athlete, a martyred saint, a budding King Arthur. With his sudden, shocking death, however, these truths were transmuted, through understandable grief, into the gauzy unreality of Camelot...
...again on that journey to Denver in 2008. He was taken to a hospital almost as soon as we arrived, was released, and then was rushed back again. He was in agony - not from the cancer but from a sudden attack of kidney stones. He was determined to speak to the convention and left his hospital bed a little more than an hour before his appearance, which much of the press and most delegates regarded as improbable or impossible. I stood and cried as he walked onto the stage. In 1980, he had gone there...