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...recent Glacial night in New York City, a gaggle of fashion editors flocked to a Seventh Avenue studio to sip piccolos of sparkling wine and collectively rhapsodize over a new clothing collection by Patrick Robinson for Target. "I want to order a few things," one editor blithely declared while admiring a rakish pleated dress with chocolate medallion print that will sell for $34.99 when it arrives in stores in May. Her Astrakhan coat and patent-leather boots might have been wildly expensive, but few?not even style arbiters?can resist the allure of fast fashion...
...crutch. For one thing, the trailer doesn’t even live up to the basic level of slickness that you’d expect from a trailer in the “Ocean’s Insert Number Here” series. The clip moves at an almost glacial pace, apparently assuming that we’ll just be so horny to see Brad and George that we’ll want to look at them in static shots for seconds at a time. Oooh! Look, it’s Al Pacino! He is an eminent actor, right? Yeah...
...week, was a top campaign promise of newly-minted UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 and Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09. Instead of pushing the idea through the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ committee system, which often moves at a glacial pace, Petersen and Sundquist led the UC in acting unilaterally. They created a Harvard Computer Services e-mail account to act as an anonymous tip line and opened it to students, promising that a committee of four undergraduates would assemble the information and present it to problem TFs. Unfortunately...
...Levels The IPCC predicts a rise in sea levels of 18-59 cm. But the assessment doesn't account for the possibility of accelerated glacial melting posited in a recent Science study, which estimated that seas could rise as much as 1.4 m by the end of the century-enough to swamp low-lying coastal cities...
...report predicts sea levels will rise 7 in. to 23 in. Bad, but not too dire, right? But this assessment doesn't account for the possibility of accelerated glacial melting, which a recent Science study estimated could raise seas more than 4 ft. by the end of the century--enough to swamp low-lying coastal cities...