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...Thursday, the Associated Press, which managed to scrounge up a summary of the as yet unreleased study, outlined the distinguished scientists' grim prediction in no uncertain terms: If greenhouse gases continue to trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere, we can expect average global temperatures to rise between 2.7 degrees and 11 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century. That kind of increase, scientists contend, means cataclysmic changes in our environment: Think melting of the polar ice caps, flooding and drought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Case for Man-Made Global Warming Gets Stronger | 10/26/2000 | See Source »

Arafat did not want to be there. He had warned President Clinton that he was not ready for the hard decisions of a final settlement, and the CIA had been advising the Administration for some time that ordinary Palestinians were even less so. Arafat, aging and in uncertain health, was tired of the continuous pressure to compromise principles he held sacred, especially after all the concessions he had already made. His people were fed up with a process that had won them only the shards of an independent state and a life in which checkpoints and expanding Jewish settlements rubbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Many Minds of Arafat | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

...fact, it the show's optimistic bent that almost killed it in pre-production. Given the aura of scandal that clung to the White House in the wake of the Lewinsky debacle, producers at NBC were uncertain that the nation would swallow Martin Sheen's squeaky-clean President Barlet. All sorts of polls have shown that the average American's faith in government has slid steadily downward since Watergate. Was it possible that a public so disillusioned with its leaders could accept the portrait of a politician with a magnetic personality, a benevolent heart, and a philosophy of being...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: Barlet for President in 2000 | 10/19/2000 | See Source »

...respect to George Bush: He was uncertain about many things he said. The Subject might exaggerate from time to time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al and Dubya Take a Shot of Cyber Truth Serum! | 10/18/2000 | See Source »

...computer didn't like Bush's military deployment position, which included the statement "I think the mission has somewhat become fuzzy." The Truster's assessment was "The Subject was uncertain about many things he said." Far too long-winded, methinks. Maybe when they come up with Truster 3.0, it will just borrow a word from Bush and declare the subject "Fuzzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al and Dubya Take a Shot of Cyber Truth Serum! | 10/18/2000 | See Source »

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