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Wang Dan's opinions differ greatly from my own. But he is a man of great principle who will dream, who will sacrifice for a better future for China. Let us extend to him the warmest of welcomes to Harvard Summer School. DANIEL C. BOYER...
...spiritual leader of the radical Palestinian group Hamas, was heartily received around most of the Arab world on a recent tour, his first after his release from an Israeli prison last October. But the welcome mat was held back in the place Yassin might have expected to find the warmest greeting. Jordan, whose KING HUSSEIN pressured Israel into freeing Yassin, twice refused him entry. According to a senior Jordanian official, Hussein, who has for years tolerated a high-profile Hamas office in Amman, is weary of the group, which has waged a series of deadly bomb attacks in Israel. Yassin...
Three of the warmest years of the 20th century were bunched in the 1990s. Does this reflect a long-term warming of the globe by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, as many atmospheric scientists have contended? Or was the hot spell just a random, unexceptional fluctuation in the weather? A study published last week in Nature magazine by climatologist Michael Mann and colleagues from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, may help melt away any lingering doubt about global warming. The scientists developed what amounts to a time-traveling thermometer. Applying innovative statistical tools to reams of evidence gathered from...
...Wang's release came as no surprise in Washington, where a number of concessions had been expected in return for the White House decision earlier this year not to sponsor a United Nations human rights resolution critical of China. With U.S.-China relations at their warmest since the Tiananmen Square massacre, Wang Dan may find freedom in exile a challenge far more complex than coping with six years in Beijing's dungeons...
...same time--despite a huge storm that set off tornadoes in Florida and dumped snow in the Ohio valley last week, killing at least 22 people--large parts of the eastern and north-central U.S. continued to bask in the warmest winter in years, one that brought cherry blossoms to Washington in the first week of January. That might sound like the opposite of a disaster, but every weather anomaly has its dark side. In a normal year, for example, the winter storm that hit New England and southern Canada in January might have dumped a thick blanket of snow...