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...gambit didn't work because it's not what drives him anymore. Lines like "The road of Providence is uneven and unpredictable-yet we know where it leads: It leads to Freedom." were a tad more soaring that his riffs about asbestos litigation or the Thrift Savings Plan available to federal workers which, by the way, is an add on to Social Security for workers like GS-11s, not a replacement...
With billions of dollars already pledged to tsunami relief and celebrity benefits still pitching, donating may seem a tad less urgent these days. So are your dollars really needed? You bet. Victims along the 3,000 miles from Sumatra to Somalia face years of rebuilding, and there's a risk that disease could push the total number of lives lost far above the current estimate of more than 150,000. Still, it is more important than ever to be smart about how you give--to make sure your funds have the impact you want. A guide...
...stir generated among climatologists by the AO makes Thompson, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University, a tad uncomfortable. "I guess I have a humble tendency," he says, noting that in science, credit seldom belongs to one person alone. Thompson is broadening his focus to include other components of the climate system, notably the AO-like Antarctic Oscillation, whose behavior, he thinks, has been profoundly influenced by the leakage into the stratosphere of man-made compounds that destroy the ozone. Result: wind patterns are keeping the white continent's interior bitterly cold while allowing the outlying peninsula to warm...
...Recent books and news reports have alleged gaping financial losses, shady journalism, declining circulation and staff chaos. "The values that made [Le Monde] a cathedral to free speech are gone," says Alain Rollat, a former member of the editorial board. "Now it's a ruin." That may be a tad too dire, but the rest of France's quality newspaper sector is undergoing no less cataclysmic changes...
...asked Morss Professor of Psychology Susan E. Carey thirty years ago if she could have imagined herself behind this cherry wood desk, she might have been a tad skeptical...