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Since the Industrial Revolution, gases like carbon dioxide and methane have been wafting into the atmosphere, where they let the sun's rays in to warm the earth but keep excess heat from escaping back into space. Acting like the glass walls of a greenhouse, these gases have forced the planet's temperature up 0.8 degreesC (1.5 degreesF) over the past century or so. If the trend continues, temperatures could increase up to 5 degreesC (9 degreesF) within 50 years, raising the sea level, distorting weather patterns and causing widespread environmental disruption...
...million tons of sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere. Since then, the stuff has circled the globe, forming a layer of droplets floating in the stratosphere, between 19 and 23 km (12 and 14 miles) above the surface. Scientists predicted that the droplets would act as a worldwide sun shield. Satellite measurements are proving they were right: the planet has cooled off about 0.5 degreesC (1 degreesF) since Pinatubo, erasing nearly a century's worth of rising temperatures. Unfortunately, the fallout will disappear in three to five years. After that, global warming should resume, as menacingly as ever...
...still harbor "major doubts" about Bill Clinton's character and values. But for now, Clinton is The Man. His hapless primary competitors, the cowardice of others who shied from the fight, and his own dogged (and at times ruthless) determination conspired to have Clinton appear in the sweltering Arkansas sun last Thursday not only alive and well -- his party's candidate for President -- but the creator, almost literally, of another just like him. Nominate one, get one free...
...What kind of singer are you?" the office assistant at Sun Records inquired of the 18-year-old in 1953 as label boss Sam Phillips set up the disk-cutting machine in the other room. "I sing all kinds," he answered. "Who do you sound like?" she persisted. "I don't sound like nobody...
...sun sinks and it appears that we will spend a dry and desperate night, we finally hit sandy soil -- a good sign. Soon we find elephant footprints filled with water. It looks pure, and I drink greedily. Fay's hand is so tired from hours of hacking with the machete that he cannot open the water bottle I have just filled...