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...bare-bones version of the story. Many scientists think more than that was needed to put Antarctica in its present deep freeze. Among their favorite candidates: a reduction of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, notably carbon dioxide. Supporting this idea are the provocative data scientists pulled from an ice core taken near the Russian station at Vostok. That ice, notes Marchant, contained bubbles of air that spanned the past 420,000 years, and the carbon dioxide in those bubbles tracked the temperature swings that mark the beginning and end of glacial cycles...
...peace. Following inquiries from TIME to discuss the issue, Education Secretary Rod Paige called Christensen to see if he could personally visit the state and "work together" on a solution. For its part, Nebraska has minimally tweaked its plan, but it still falls far short of the law's core annual-testing regimen. If the Administration accepts the plan, other states may begin agitating for special treatment and the law could lose its federal force. --By Jodie Morse and Maggie Sieger
...want to make sure that these add-ons don’t actually take resources away from the core mission of the schools,” said University Provost Steven E. Hyman, at the time of the policy’s approval...
...never really intended for it to be gone,” Kugel said. “Two years ago I hadn’t been well and it just seemed like an awful lot. Teaching a big core course is a pretty demanding undertaking...
...tackles the budget, it’s unclear whether his style can accommodate a compassionate approach to the funding shortfall. With the details of his proposal issued today, we hope that Romney’s core values are the ones shared by the people of the commonwealth, and that his business background will give him the tools he needs to find creative solutions—not just more of the slash-and-burn cuts we have seen...