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...conveyor." The subject of much recent research, the conveyor is a gigantic oceanic flywheel that transports cold water from the seas off Iceland and Greenland in a majestic, slow current along the bottom of the ocean to Antarctica, where it surfaces several decades later and flows back north, absorbing heat as it passes the equator. The conveyor seems to have kicked into a faster gear lately, bringing warm equatorial water north before it can cool. Hurricanes draw their energy from warm water...
...heat of summer, amid the steady thump of rap music, the folks on South Parnell Avenue like to sit on their stoops nursing cans of Old Milwaukee and watching the cars go by. There's not a whole lot else to do on Parnell, a dead-end street tucked away in the blighted neighborhood of Englewood on Chicago's South Side--especially when you're out of work and out of patience trying to find it. So residents spend their time sitting outside and getting the lay of the land by scoping out passing cars. They see somebody...
...reducing the size of their available range but fragmenting it." She recalls a recent incident in Roseville, Calif., where a lion walked right through a brand-new apartment complex. The site straddled a natural pathway that lions used to travel between neighboring ranges. "There was probably a female in heat in the next canyon over that he'd visited before," says Sadler...
...nightshot feature in Sony's HandyCam camcorders was supposed to let parents film their kids in the dark. Then some folks noticed that using NightShot in bright daylight could make fully clothed people look almost naked. That's because NightShot's infrared technology senses heat emitted from the body. Sony has disabled daytime use of NightShot in new models, but with thousands of the HandyCams already sold, you might want to wear some foil...
...Laden operates under the protection of the Pakistan-allied Taliban movement in Afghanistan, although Islamabad is cooperating energetically with the U.S. investigation in the hope of lifting the sanctions imposed after Pakistan's nuclear tests. Still, there may be good reason for the embassy evacuation -- turning up the heat on Bin Laden is likely to make his own backyard a pretty hot place...