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...first time in three games, a Harvard opponent managed to keep pace with the Crimson’s white-hot bats...
There were trees. The traffic used to go up the street instead of down, and there was very little traffic. The pace was slower...
...anyone. Unless you adhere to the philosophical wing that believes the increasing integration of North America can be reversed, the only option is to figure out how to manage interdependent economies that have begun to strain the continent's infrastructure. The real question is how far to push the pace of change--and here Harper is surprisingly, and uncharacteristically, modest. He noted with approval that officials of all three nations have been instructed to develop a cooperative approach to crisis management (including preparation for a possible bird-flu pandemic), collaborate on clean-energy programs and improve coordination on border security...
...about whether the grim forecasts were true, but in the past five years or so, the serious debate has quietly ended. Global warming, even most skeptics have concluded, is the real deal, and human activity has been causing it. If there was any consolation, it was that the glacial pace of nature would give us decades or even centuries to sort out the problem...
...part because of these digressions, "Inside Man" has a far more leisured pace than most thrillers. However, the storyline is interesting enough that Lee doesn’t need to blow something up every couple minutes to hold our attention. In fact, the violence is fairly minimal; most of the drama is created by people’s strained and intense conversations...