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...sure that friendship, a warm-blooded organism, can survive on so much abstraction. That metaphysical dinner was weeks ago. Now it's the season of real friends gathering to warm themselves with the heat of one another's company. We need that when days are shortest and coldest. We need friendship pulsing in our veins when the pipes freeze in the kitchen...
...line Marine lieutenant who had to keep his head down and his feet warm. He is now waging war on two fronts. His new novel, based on his Korean War experience, hits the racks at the same time as a reissue of his 1990 combat memoir, The Coldest War. Nearly 37,000 American troops died in Korea, where the winters were as deadly as the enemy. Both novel and memoir are graphic reminders of what has been called the Forgotten War. But not by Brady...
...hectare) of Brazil's Atlantic forest and 1,300 butterfly species from a corner of Peru's Manu National Park, both more than 10 times the number from comparable sites in Europe and North America. At the other extreme, the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, with the poorest and coldest soils in the world, still harbor sparse communities of bacteria, fungi and microscopic invertebrate animals...
...Natural Capitalism, the new book co-authored by Amory, Hunter and Paul Hawken. It also energizes the Lovinses' headquarters in the Rockies. Made of thick stone slabs, it is so airtight that the sun's rays entering big windows during the day keep the temperature cozy even on the coldest winter nights. The abundant sunlight almost eliminates the need for daytime artificial lighting, stimulates solar panels to make electricity, keeps the house supplied with hot water and shines on a sort of tropical forest in an atrium with a waterfall and fishponds. Getting the most...
...GIRL? Mothers who conceive in warmer countries are more likely to have boys, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Victor Grech, a pediatrician in Malta, surveyed 17 countries' birth statistics. After separating them into three climatic bands, he determined that the coldest group had the lowest rate of male births and the hottest group had a consistently high proportion of baby boys. Researchers are still examining the results to figure out why heat affects gender...