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That means climate change isn't a problem for tomorrow; the effects are happening now. Already precipitation patterns seem to be changing, making some drier areas - like the arid American southwest - even drier, and rainy regions even wetter. (Which can be almost as destructive as a drought - last year's record-breaking floods in Britain caused $4 billion worth of damage.) As warmer temperatures creep northward, so do insects and other pests that are adapted to the heat. The results can be harrowing - the population of the tiny mountain pine beetle, which infests pine trees in the Rocky Mountain region...
...need for protective regulations was not based solely on the recent Tylenol attacks. He argued that the outbreak of product tampering would plant similar ideas “in a sick person’s mind” during Halloween, and noted that trick-filled treats had been a problem in years past, citing an incident of someone who “put stuff in candy bars” in North Cambridge 30 years earlier...
...added, however, that “everybody was concerned about packages that weren’t packed securely after the Tylenol problem...
...integration of computers into the undergraduate experience was not seamless. Students in an introductory computer science course, Applied Math 110, had to wait hours for terminal time, making difficult problem sets even more time-consuming. In response, the students put together a petition asking for more computers...
...reasons that I think he turned out to be prolific and extremely successful...was that he had a great imagination, no problem at all with making the narrative fit the story rather than fit the truth,” Gordon said...