Word: carbone
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...relatively mild winter may well not be cause for celebration or, given this week's temperatures, nostalgia. Many scientists are now claiming that the consequences of the long-predicted "Greenhouse effect"--the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from air pollution causing temperature increases--are finally being felt. They assert that it is more than coincidence that the greatest temperature rises in the past few years have occurred Boston, New York and Los Angeles--cities with the most severe pollution problems...
...French from the new thirst for chic sparklers. Genuine champagne comes only from grapes grown on 70,000 acres of chalky soil near Reims, France. It was there that Dom Pérignon, a 17th century Benedictine monk, perfected the slow, expensive méthode champenoise that creates the carbon-dioxide fizz by fermenting wine a second time inside the bottle. Until a few years ago, U.S. consumers regarded France's pricey bubbly as an indulgence reserved for weddings, New Year's Eve parties and World Series locker rooms. But the current strength of the dollar has brought...
...second stanza was a carbon copy of the first, with Harvard unable to solve the Maine press. The hosts' margin hovered around 20 for much of the final period, until a frantic flurry of fouls by the Crimson in the last five minutes propelled Maine to its final lead...
Wald refuted the claim that silicon, not carbon, could be the basis of other life. Silicon cannot form chemical double bonds, and therefore, forms crystalline chains instead of discreet molecules...
...When you're finished, you've got a rock," said Wald. "But if you want to make living organisms, you have to use carbon...