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Today, Blumenthal is the editor of “Prospects of Tomorrow,” a series of books focusing on ideas for how to affect the future and discussions of what kinds of issues the world will face in the coming years. The series includes his own 2099: A Eutopia—a look at how daily life may work in a metropolis at the cusp of the 22nd century—and collections of noted scholars discussing positive methods of approaching the future and how to ensure the best possible world for later generations...
Morgalis threw live batting practice to Garciaparra on Saturday and Tuesday, and will pitch again tomorrow. Hendricks threw on Sunday, Wednesday, and throws again today...
...have one day to redeem ourselves tomorrow...
...present Administration, with its much documented reluctance to acknowledge global warming as a legitimate environmental concern, had already given the issue a political charge, and Tomorrow was a hot potato weeks before its release. In April an urgent internal memo from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center was leaked to the New York Times; it stated, "No one from NASA is to do interviews or otherwise comment on anything having to do with" the movie. (The gag order has since been rescinded.) At a press conference organized last week by the activist group MoveOn.org Gore poked holes in the movie...
...Tomorrow may be politically useful and financially profitable, but is there good science under all that? The answer is no--and also yes. Global warming in some scenarios could lead to a long-term cooling, but nothing so dramatic as this, and certainly not at Hollywood speed: in the movie a killer frost chases a sprinting Gyllenhaal down a hallway. Change that drastic would take decades, if not centuries. Even Dan Schrag, a Harvard paleoclimatologist who spoke at the MoveOn.org press conference, says the plot is largely bunk: "Climate change, global warming, is not going to lead...