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...Glaciers, including the legendary snows of Kilimanjaro, are disappearing from mountaintops around the globe. Coral reefs are dying off as the seas get too warm for comfort. Drought is the norm in parts of Asia and Africa. El Niño events, which trigger devastating weather in the eastern Pacific, are more frequent. The Arctic permafrost is starting to melt. Lakes and rivers in colder climates are freezing later and thawing earlier each year. Plants and animals are shifting their ranges poleward and to higher altitudes, and migration patterns for animals as diverse as polar bears and beluga whales...
...olfactory accompaniment to mankind's inexorable march of progress. Indeed, our willingness to crawl into another animal's skin is precisely one of the traits that separates us from those same beasts. Yet forced by the heat and humidity to shed our cowhides and lambskin loincloths during hotter weather, it's no wonder we are stripped of a little humanity and civilization every Memorial Day. The summertime German invasion of Poland, the Watergate break-in and Woodstock III amply demonstrate this unleathered animalizing tendency...
Boston-area activists took advantage of the warm weather and the ongoing living wage sit-in in Mass. Hall to join an action organized by the Progressive Student Labor Movement(PSLM) in solidarity with the ongoing protests to denounce the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement (FTAA) Summit in Quebec this weekend...
...this weekend stays sunny, you will see Harvard at its best. Charles River’s is the most beautiful vista on warm days. Though this isn’t Stanford, with spastic Cambridge weather, if it isn’t the parties, the academics, or your fellow students that convince you to come here, let it be a sparkling pre-frosh weekend...
...will produce a joint political declaration that bolsters the democratic solidarity of the hemisphere and an 18-point collective "action plan" that covers initiatives ranging from toughening the war against drugs and providing rural areas with access to computer technologies to the creation of a pan-American network of weather forecasters to assist in the management of natural disasters. And the meeting will undoubtedly announce significant progress toward the Holy Grail of the summit process: the creation of a giant Free Trade Area of the Americas by 2005, encompassing 800 million people and economies worth a collective $11 trillion...