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...storms brewed in the North Atlantic and western north Pacific since the middle of the 20th century. He found that the average power of the storms increased 50% in those 50 years. It's a change that, he has little doubt, is linked to global warming. A slightly weaker Katrina may have made all the difference to New Orleans, where the levees were made for withstanding a Category 3 storm but not the more powerful Category 4 (like Katrina when it made landfall) or Category 5 (like Katrina the day before...
...touch without face-to-face contact, or indeed without working particularly hard at relationship-building at all. While before we may have had fewer deeper friendships—those select few enabled by sheer force of will to last over great distances—now we have many weaker ones: people we talk to once in a blue moon when our schedules align (who hasn’t gone through their buddy list at 3 a.m. while putting off a paper?) but otherwise go months without contacting...
...reply, Dower refused to change the format of the event, writing that it is “difficult for Mr. Flynt to work the debate/panel arrangement as his voice is weaker.” She did not mention the camera crew’s supposed concern that a debate would be difficult to film...
...legislature, and will need to find allies on an issue-by-issue basis to pursue his legislative agenda. Since consensus is no easy feat in in light of the sectarian tensions of all of the major blocs in the legislative assembly, Maliki may simply end up commanding a weaker central government...
...Pentagon nearly a year ago, the plan was to invade Iraq from Kuwait in the south, from Turkey in the north and from Jordan in the west. Rumsfeld couldn't shake the notion that it seemed too familiar. He felt that the U.S. would face a far weaker Iraqi army than the one it crushed 12 years ago--and has bombed incessantly for the past five years. "Despite being told not to do it, [Franks] basically sent up a revised Gulf War I plan. Rumsfeld couldn't believe it," says a senior Pentagon official. Says a Central Command officer...