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When climate scientists use the word adaptation, they are referring to actions intended to safeguard a person, community, business or country against the effects of climate change. Its complement is mitigation--any measure that will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, such as drawing power from a wind turbine rather than a coal-fired power plant. Mitigation addresses, if you will, the front end of the global-warming problem; by cutting emissions, it aims to slow rising temperatures. Adaptation is the back end of the problem--trying to live with the changes in the environment and the economy that global warming...
Maybe one word explains much of what went wrong with the conservative movement: hubris. John Griffiths, BUFFALO CITY...
...September, it launched a website, GPWN.tv, where PWs--in privacy and anonymity--can enter the "dining room" to watch a video titled What Every Beginning Pastor's Wife Needs to Know, then move on to the "study room" for one called Defeating Depression: Turn Hard Times into High Times. Word spread quickly, and the website counts more than 22,000 registered members around the world...
...Pamela Anderson and Denise Richards are being sued by two paparazzi who claim that the actresses assaulted them and Richards threw the fotogs' laptops off a hotel balcony while the actresses were in Canada filming Blonde and Blonder. Star watcher GOSSIP WORD observes, "Like most things in Anderson's life, the incident was apparently caught on a hotel security tape." SCORE...
...eastern town of Abeche by nightfall. Bishaq was not only five and a half hours late, but come 5 p.m., as we passed a dust-blown town called Mongo, he suddenly swerved through some metal gates, pulled up in a dusty courtyard, stepped out and ambled away with the word: "Hotel...