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...knew it - only enhances the sense of disengagement. Hutton's character describes meeting his beautiful wife, who is already a mother, and says he knew he ought to marry her because he'd never do better. "I remember thinking, this is amazing, it's like she's already, pre-tested? I actually thought about that. Is it shallow? Does it sound shallow? Or do you think the truth behind this kind of thing will always sound kind of shallow? Everybody's real reasons...
...meaning no more than 350 atoms of carbon for every million atoms of air. (Before the industrial age, levels were at 280 p.p.m.; currently they're at 387 p.p.m. and rising.) That, scientists believe, should be enough to keep global temperatures from rising more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels, which should be safely below a climatic tipping point that could lead to the wide-scale melting of polar ice sheets, swamping coastal cities. "Transgressing these boundaries will increase the risk of irreversible climate change," writes Rockstrom...
This new piece of technology enables readers to access a vast pool of texts exponentially larger than the number of books currently crowding the shelves of the Harvard Book Store, especially those titles published pre-1923, before which copyright protections are largely inapplicable. Now, the number of unavailable, out-of-print books has—at least for customers of the Harvard Book Store and the few other nationwide stores with Espresso Book Machines—significantly diminished, and many obscure books can be accessed without the labyrinth of used booksellers and the obligatory weeks of waiting and searching...
...evolution of the virus, antiviral drugs to help reduce the suffering, antibiotics to treat dangerous secondary infections like pneumonia, and real-time communications to spread the word. Soon we will almost certainly have a vaccine as well. We're living through an unprecedented opportunity for civilization - a chance to pre-empt a catastrophic pandemic influenza rather than just react...
...Certainly, H1N1 is a serious risk—this is not to discount it as a threat. Those with pre-existing medical conditions are at a higher risk of danger than the average population, and unfortunately several students nationwide have died of complications. Advisory campaigns to supposedly minimize our risk, however, are ineffective. It’s common sense and the responsible self-reporting of symptoms that will protect us—not refusing to shake hands with people juggling clean plates...