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...that we may have gone a little too far on this planet. Systems are breaking down - that could be cataclysmic. The warming of the atmosphere has gotten everybody's attention. I'm speaking to you from Western Massachusetts where the thermometer hit 60 yesterday and was four degrees below zero three days before. Weather is going crazy everywhere. Ice caps are melting, and we're hearing that could push sea levels up. You know the drill...
Nine billion [people] isn't going to work - not unless we come up with utterly free or cheap and abundant zero-emission energy, and I've written enough about energy to know that ain't around the corner. It's been five or 10 years away - as long as I've been looking at it. I think we can survive and will, and could do it in a manageable way. But until we start taking steps, people will be more and more frightened about what we're facing - and that's why you're seeing this spate...
...west side of Beijing's venerable Workers' Stadium is ground zero for the capital's party animals. Stretching south of the stadium gate is a row of huge dance clubs with names like Babyface, Coco Banana, Cargo and Angel, each competing with its neighbors to be bigger, brighter and louder. But on the other side of the road, the offices and shops are shuttered by late evening. Only one discreet neon sign is visible above a small stairway: Destination - Beijing's premier gay club...
...study, for example, indicate that the life-lengthening powers of marriage have increased over time--but again, mostly for men. Over nearly two decades, the study found, married men widened the already significant difference in cancer-death incidence between themselves and unmarried men by 25%; married women gained absolutely zero ground over their unmarried peers. Why this subtle somatic sexism? "This is a gross generalization, but women are really the mental- and physical-health housekeepers for a marriage," says psychologist Janice Kiecolt-Glaser of the Ohio State University College of Medicine. "They are often the ones who prod...
...yesterday. The fellows include David Yepsen, a political columnist for The Des Moines Register who has covered the Iowa caucus since the 1976 presidential election. He hopes to study the role of early primary election states in the presidential nomination process. “We’re ground zero for all these presidential campaigns,” Yepsen said in an interview yesterday. “I want to look at the calendar, the role of money and debates, all of those aspects to the early states.” Yepsen also said he was eager to work with...