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...Number of fatal alligator attacks in Florida since 1948 3 Number of fatal attacks last week; experts say that recent warm weather has made the alligators more active...
...Xerox machines were already being used to copy today’s exams, so Ben-Shahar, Glazer, and Achor raced to Gnoman Copy to quickly print the 10-page final 1,100 times. When the exams finally reached students’ hands, the multiple choice questions were still warm. “It was obviously a really stressful situation,” said Glazer, the head teaching fellow, last night. “I don’t think I’ve ever run that fast in my life, and I used to run cross-country. My face...
...Blair's tone may have been affectionate and familiar, but the drawn-out process that led to Muammar Gaddafi coming in from the cold wasn't always so warm. At one point, Seif al Islam recalls, his father "suspected an ambush" by the West: getting him to give up his only deterrent but withholding diplomatic rehabilitation. A series of TIME interviews that began before Sept. 11 with Gaddafi himself, his influential son and key Libyan officials offer a unique look into the Libyan view of the secret talks and considerations that led to Gaddafi?s staggering reversal of fortune...
...irresistible compulsion. Every time the price of gasoline jumps to a new high, I, as well as countless other journalists, serve up a standard list of burning questions that we've kept warm on the hot plate since the last spike. Will the country finally get serious about conservation? Will Detroit go full-tilt producing hybrid cars? Will commuters stay home and work over the Web? And last, this, the big one: What will it take for oil-drunk Americans to finally learn their lesson and sober up? (With its talk about gas-tax holidays and $100 rebates, Congress seems...
...forces that have caused the coast to subside are pretty well understood. What's far less clear is the possible role of global warming. That rising temperatures heat the ocean and melt ice caps is undisputed. Most climate models also predict that turning up the worldwide thermometer will lead to more extreme weather patterns--hotter hots, colder colds, harder rains. Hurricanes would seem to be especially sensitive to climate changes, since warm ocean waters are the fuel that drives the storms...