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...called the dead zone. Agricultural fertilizer byproducts like nitrogen are running off farms and into the Mississippi River, which then spills out into the Gulf of Mexico. Those chemicals help feed crops on land, but as they build up in the still, warm waters of the Gulf, they in turn feed excess growth of algae. When algae dies and decomposes, the process sucks much of the oxygen out of the water. A sea without oxygen is little different from the surface of the moon - nothing can live there. Fish and other sea life flee, or suffocate. That's the Gulf...
...find everyone to be warm and gracious, and the faculty is certainly quite welcoming,” said Loren J. Metzger-Marcus, mother of Alexander W. Marcus ’09. “It’s been wonderful to get a slice out of our son?...
...leading academic institutions - Austan Goolsbee is an economics professor at the University of Chicago, and Samantha Power is a foreign policy expert at Harvard (as well as a columnist for TIME). Both joined Obama's team early on as the senior advisors within their policy areas, and, both enjoyed warm personal relationships with the candidate and the political professionals surrounding...
...hell beat in the hearts of these frosty folk; for Snow Angels, like a bunch of other films set in cold climates (The Ice Storm, The Sweet Hereafter, Affliction, A Simple Plan, Fargo, this year's Sundance winner Frozen River), is about people who will do anything to get warm, even if it means getting burned. Cheating on their spouses, for a start; and for one doomed family, a lot worse...
...place he lands is the World Database of Happiness (WDH), a Dutch institute that scientifically researches perceptions of happiness in various societies around the world, and ranks countries in order of contentment. At WDH, Weiner learns some of the cold, hard facts about the conditions under which we feel warm and fuzzy. East Asian cultures, he finds, report lower levels of individual happiness, which researchers chalk up to the overriding value placed on social harmony, while Americans "are guilty of inflating our contentment to impress." Married people and optimists are happier than singles and pessimists, women and men tend...