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...word. But there's also a bigger picture that's worth a look. At Berkshire's annual meeting last year, Buffett warned that the stock market was presenting few bargains and that investors should expect dramatically lower returns. Just last fall he bought $2 billion of--gasp!--long-term Treasury bonds, an investment that betrays some concern about stocks. Now he turns around and buys enough silver to make the Hunts jealous. Could it be that Buffett has soured on the stock market...
...same time, El Nino gives scientists a rare chance to study a phenomenon that transcends the short-term weather forecasts that are the bread and butter of meteorologists. In many ways, El Nino may be a dry run for the kind of large-scale weather effects some scientists predict will accompany the climate changes caused by global warming...
That's why corals and tree rings and ice cores are so important. They are like a tape recording of the various instruments in the climate orchestra, ranging from El Nino's high-frequency violin to the deeper cello- and basslike tones struck by longer-term cycles. By studying the hidden rhythms in these signals, scientists may finally be able to see how the parts fit together, sometimes harmonizing, sometimes clashing...
Daily Spin "Kids and dog for hire. Life term contract. Sad gits need not apply." Newspaper advertisement for new parents taken out by 10-year-old British twins Lauren and Ashton Mills, whose mother is dying of cancer...
Daily Spin "Kids and dog for hire. Life term contract. Sad gits need not apply." Newspaper advertisement for new parents taken out by 10-year-old British twins Lauren and Ashton Mills, whose mother is dying of cancer...