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Family patriarch Joe Jackson was also front and center. He was one of the first family members to arrive at the event, exiting one of their five rented Phantom Rolls Royces with his grandchildren in tow. A controversial figure, Joe spoke at the funeral in defense of his son. "He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jackson's Funeral: Family and Friends Say Goodbye | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

Global warming - the very term sounds gentle, like a bath that grows pleasantly hotter under the tap. Many people might assume that's how climate change works too, the globe gradually increasing in temperature until we decide to stop it by cutting our carbon emissions. It's a comforting notion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There a Climate-Change Tipping Point? | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

There's just one problem: that's not how climate change is likely to unfold. Instead, scientists worry about potential tipping points - triggers that, once reached, could lead to sudden and irrevocable changes in the climate, almost without warning. It's the same phenomenon of sudden collapse that can be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There a Climate-Change Tipping Point? | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

So, how do we know that change is at hand? The Nature researchers noticed one potential signal: the sudden variance between two distinct states within one system, known by the less technical term squealing. In an ecological system like a forest, for example, squealing might look like an alternation between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There a Climate-Change Tipping Point? | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

For many people, summer is a period of relaxation and resting on one’s laurels after a year of hard work. For others, it is a chance to ambitiously push ahead and surpass previous achievements, no matter how remarkable those might have been. On the evidence of ?...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dirty Projectors | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

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