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...Tibetan Plateau Research, has done on-the-ground research on the Chinese side of the Himalayas - the world's biggest collection of ice outside the two poles - and reported last year that by the end of the century, as much as 70% of the mountain range's glaciers could disappear. And far from providing evidence against climate change, nearly all alpine glaciers worldwide that have been tracked have shown significant melting over the past several decades - often documented in photographs. "It's happening globally, in Europe, North America, China and the Himalayas," says Lonnie Thompson, a glacier expert at Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Himalayan Melting: How a Climate Panel Got It Wrong | 1/21/2010 | See Source »

...Need to disappear from Facebook or Twitter? Now you can scrub yourself from the Internet with Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, a nifty service that purges your online presence from these all-consuming social networks. Since its Dec. 19 launch, Suicide Machine has assisted more than 1,000 virtual deaths, severing more than 80,500 friendships on Facebook and removing some 276,000 tweets from Twitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Disappear from Facebook and Twitter | 1/19/2010 | See Source »

...right: in 1999, newspapers and magazines misspelled millennium 4,709 times.) In TIME's pages, writers predicted cures for the common cold and baldness (sadly, no). We would give up meat. Religion would replace politics as the prime shaper of American society (sure feels that way sometimes). Retirement would disappear (sadly, yes), along with much of major league baseball. Teeth would become a fashion accessory, like fake nails, and the only thing we wouldn't be doing online is brushing them. (See the top 10 everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembrance of Things Future | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

Harvard Law School suspended the Public Service Initiative, a program that waived third-year tuition for law students who pledged to five years of public service after graduation. While budget cuts call for belt-tightening, it’s sad to see HLS’s Public Service Initiative disappear...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Public Option | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

...whether religion will disappear from Harvard, Gomes’ answer is simple. “We are still here. We will always be here,” he says...

Author: By Jessie J. Jiang and Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Christianity Sees Shifting Place | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

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