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...past year or so, Ralph Reed has repeatedly shed his skin and emerged in roles few might have predicted. After leaving his post as head of the Christian Coalition, the baby-faced conservative headed to the George W. Bush camp, ready to act as campaign consultant via his company, Century Strategies. Now Reed is molting again, having caught the eye of Bill Gates, who's currently bracing for the punishment phase against his company, which was found guilty of monopoly tactics two weeks ago. According to the New York Times, Gates moved decisively and secured Reed's services...
When No Doubt first took its music to Los Angeles radio station K-ROQ in 1992, the message from the grunge-obsessed program director was not your polite kiss-off: "It will take an act of God for this band to get on the radio." The Lord works in mysterious ways. Grunge fell off the cultural cliff, and No Doubt's mix of punk, pop and ska alchemized into the carefree, radio-friendly sound of the mid-'90s. Tragic Kingdom sold 15 million copies and turned singer Gwen Stefani into the It Girl for teenagers of both sexes...
What to do is obvious. First, find a scale, assess your excess winter baggage and act now. "It's a lot easier to lose a pound or so today than 20 lbs. later on," says Yanovski. In general, just as you built up the weight slowly, you should take it off slowly, aiming to lose no more than a pound or so a week...
...tells us about the basic nature of the subatomic world is a question theorists have been wrestling with for decades. The great Danish physicist Niels Bohr, for example, believed that before you pinned a particle down by measuring it, the particle was literally in several places at once. The act of measurement, he suggested, forced the particle to choose one location over all the others...
Shrubs, grasses and other vegetative covers act in much the same way, trapping water, feeding moisture into the atmosphere and providing shade that shields the surface of the land from the drying rays of the sun. Large-scale land-clearing efforts under way around the world wipe all that out. The ongoing development of South Florida, for instance, has filled in and paved over much of the Everglades wetlands, which have long served as an important source of atmospheric moisture. As a consequence, says Colorado State University atmospheric scientist Roger Pielke Sr., South Florida in July and August has become...