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...Greenland?s ice were plopped into the ocean, sea level would rise a catastrophic 20 feet or more. Until yesterday, most experts thought global warming might make it happen in a couple of thousand years. Now they?re talking hundreds. It still sounds like a long time, but, says Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton, "that comes to a couple of feet per century, and that?s more than society is equipped to handle." It doesn?t, moreover, take into account the two mammoth ice sheets of Antarctica, which pack about 20 and 200 feet...
Like many moms of my era, I was one of those who righteously banned Barbie, the doll that launched a thousand women's studies dissertations, on the grounds that we didn't want our daughters' role model to be a giddy shopaholic who said, "Math class is tough!" and had a figure that defied the laws of gravity. That stance lasted until my older daughter was about 6 and a wise friend told me I was being an idiot by turning Barbie into forbidden fruit. Sure enough, when Sleeping Beauty Barbie arrived, she was played with happily for 48 hours...
...maybe they’ll end up living longer and more fulfilling lives. The debate can rage, but whether it’s the children of light or the children of darkness who emerge at the end of the line, Ben-Shahar will still be lecturing to over a thousand students per week...
...heart of Delhi recently assured a bewildered tourist that the photo of the marble-domed building in a guidebook showed the Tomb of Hanuman, a Hindu monkey god. (It's actually the Tomb of Humayun, a 16th century Mughal Emperor). That's why Lucy Peck's Delhi: A Thousand Years of Building is one of the best things in years to have happened to Delhi's architecture enthusiasts...
...enforcement agency that works hard to be invisible, the Federal Air Marshals have been generating a lot of attention lately. On Monday, the U.S. Attorney in Houston filed federal drug charges against two of the agency's several thousand highly trained traveling armed guards, Shawn Ray Nguyen, 38 and Burlie Sholar, 32, who, as TIME first reported, were taken into custody late last week...