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...Eventually a wave just hit us on the side and the boat turned over,” he said, adding that they could not climb back into the canoe afterwards...
...fair bet that global warming is going to lead to a rise in human sickness and death. But what form they will take is difficult to say. We can be pretty sure that as average temperatures climb, there will be more frequent and longer heat waves of the sort that contributed to the death of at least 20,000 Europeans in August 2003. Other predictions are more tenuous. For example, rising temperatures could--if rainfall and other conditions are right--result in larger mosquito populations at higher elevations in the tropics, which could in turn contribute to the spread...
...high-profile fight against a Republican incumbent: they'll be the poster boys (and women: Tammy Duckworth, who lost both legs in Iraq, is running in Illinois) for the Democrats' long-shot efforts to retake the House in 2006. They may also represent the beginning of the Dems' long climb back to credibility on national-security issues. Chris Carney has one of the toughest races. "The district is so Republican that no one really thinks he can win, even with Sherwood's problems," says G. Terry Madonna, who runs Franklin and Marshall College's Keystone Poll. But Iraq-war veterans...
...great view of the 'hood (and a nosy peek at residents' backyards), climb the 216-m-high, Soviet rocket-like TV tower to its indoor viewing deck. Crawling up and down the tower's pillars are provocateur Czech artist David Cerny's large black babies?definitely more David Lynch than Merchant Ivory. 1 Mahlerovy sady...
...Cabot House tutor will climb Mt. Everest this August to raise charity funds for a hospice for terminally ill children. “It’s about doing something I want to do and for a good cause,” said Myles G. Osborne, Ph.D. candidate in History and African Studies, who will be the only member of his expedition that is climbing for charity. Osbourne said he plans to donate the money to Naomi House, a hospice in southern United Kingdom. “I always had the climb in the back of my mind...