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...Hansen: Business-as-usual will yield warming of 6 to 9?F by the end of the century and that will have two major impacts. First, sea level will rise. The last time it was 5?F warmer than now sea level was at least 80 feet higher. It may take a few centuries for most of that rise to occur, but once started, the ice sheets would continue to disintegrate out of our control, so every several decades we would need to rebuild above a higher shoreline. Those costs would dwarf any costs associated with learning to use energy...
...still to perform well at even the most demanding academic institutions despite our amazing ability to complete homework on time yet somehow lose it inside our backpacks. The same brain that gives us the useless and often harmful abilities to memorize baseball statistics and burp will also sometimes yield a brilliant idea. For every 100 odd impulses our male brain yields, there will be one impulse that leads to a creative, sensible result. Like my Latin teacher always used to tell me, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Our testosterone-soaked brains have done this world some...
...said last year’s surplus was the result of both good management and a number of events, including an unusually high yield of students accepting admission. He said the slightly higher class size did not affect academic quality, and brought in more revenue...
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...comes down to this: today T-bonds yield 4.6%--2.6 percentage points higher than TIPS' after-inflation yield. So the market is betting that inflation will average 2.6% a year over 10 years. If you want to own bonds and think inflation will be lower, choose T-bonds. Otherwise, take TIPS, and sleep better. [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Inflation Beaters