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...coming under such sustained attack that they may perish by the year 2050. "I used to be reluctant to say the sky was falling," says paleobiologist Jeremy Jackson of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute near Panama City, Panama. "I'm not anymore. Today when I go for a swim on a reef in Panama...
...beginning of the season, the pool was just a dark, scary hole where the Harvard men's water polo team (3-2) would sink more then it would swim...
...Sink or Swim...
Clark says that most students have been able to adjust to the technology within a few weeks, and so the school adopts a sort of "sink or swim" policy. Students who are unable to keep up can then get help individually, he says...
...consequence, Wilson predicts, is that "most of the welfare mothers who reach the five-year time limit will be left to sink or swim, and for those in the inner city the situation will be catastrophic. The supply of low-skilled workers compared to the number of jobs that are available is so large that it would take 10 to 15 continuous years of economic expansion to absorb them. We've never had a period of sustained economic growth that has lasted that long. This means that if we want to prevent a large number of mothers and children...