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Humans are feeling the heat too. In Alaska, melting permafrost (occasionally hastened by construction) has produced "roller coaster" roads, power lines tilted at crazy angles and houses sinking up to their window sashes as the ground liquefies. In parts of the wilderness, the signal is more clear: wetlands, ponds and grasslands have replaced forests, and moose have moved in as caribou have moved out. On the Mackenzie River delta in Canada's Northwest Territories, Arctic-savvy Inuit inhabitants have watched with dismay as warming ground melted the traditional freezers they cut into the permafrost for food storage. Permafrost provides stiffening...
...majority of people live, but they could soon have serious implications for all of us. What is really at risk in the Arctic is part of the thermostat of the earth itself. The difference in temperatures between the tropics and the poles drives the global climate system. The excess heat that collects in the tropics is dissipated at the poles, about half of it through what has been nicknamed the ocean conveyor, a vast deepwater current equivalent to 100 Amazon Rivers. Much of the rest of the heat is conveyed as energy in the storms that move north from...
...court that the facility was suffering from various quality-control problems in the mid-'90s. A former production worker there tells TIME that around 1993 supervisors implemented a policy that shortened the time spent curing, or cooking, the tires - when the different layers are bonded together under intense heat - from 26 to 16 minutes. Firestone did not return calls for comment...
...issue as that $1.3 trillion tax cut. After a decade of U.S. military successes almost as overwhelming as its economic ones, it's a crisis voters weren't particularly aware of, and a solution they aren't particularly crying for. But never mind that; for Cheney, it sure beats heat over executive pay packages...
...left some of the aides who took both trips, like National Security Adviser Sandy Berger and chief of staff John Podesta, noticeably dragging as they traipsed along with the official delegation. In a concession to those who haven't had time to do laundry - and to the steamy coastal heat of Cartagena - Clinton declared a Casual Wednesday and boarded Air Force One without...