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...into a shell to protect his privacy this season, he has been making a concerted effort to meet the needs of the media and the wants of the fans. At the All-Star Game in Arlington, Texas, he worked his way from dugout to dugout in 100 [degree] F heat, signing every thing put in his way. In Baltimore this summer, he has been conducting after-the-game autograph sessions to make up for lost time and repair the wounds of the baseball strike...
...times; Krasnoyarsk is nearly six Californias. The entire region is frigid in winter. Oimyakon in Yakutia is often cited as the coldest inhabited settlement on earth, with winter temperatures dropping to -94 degrees F. The summers are so short that plants rush wildly to take advantage of the brief heat and light. In some parts of Kamchatka, grasses grow up to 3 in. a day. During that season, bugs proliferate and clouds of mosquitoes, dubbed gnusy (the vile ones), can turn brief strolls into interludes with the vampires...
...vast expanses contain natural oddities and wonders. In the far north, climate and physics conspire to defy common sense. Lakes wander up to 10 ft. a year as their waters accumulate summer heat and melt the edges of their permafrost boundaries. Summer melting of the upper layers of the permafrost also allows leaves frozen since the Pleistocene era to return to their slow-motion decay. For years scientists were puzzled by the age of methane gases released from arctic lakes, which radiocarbon dating revealed to be more than 10,000 years old. Mammoths that strode the earth in millenniums past...
...ways as well we are naturally crude. But the restraint of crude impulses is also part of our nature. Indeed, the "guilt" that Freud never satisfactorily explained is one built-in restrainer. By design, it discourages us from, say, neglecting kin through unbridled egoism, or imperiling friendships in the heat of anger--or, at the very least, it goads us to make amends after such imperiling, once we've cooled down. Certainly modern society may burden us unduly with guilt. After erupting in anger toward an acquaintance, we may not see him or her for weeks, whereas in the ancestral...
After more than two years of court fights and $5 million in legal fees, what kind of feminist poops out after one little episode of heat exhaustion? To begin with, Shannon Faulkner makes an unlikely feminist. She applied to the Citadel after being surprised to learn that a state-supported school was still all male. While her cause was taken up by sympathetic lawyers, she never engendered the unstinting support of women's groups and her timing was off: the Republican revolution, cause fatigue, and a sense that women had been there and done that, all diminished her attraction...