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Elizabeth Gilbert does these reluctant wives one better. The author of Eat, Pray, Love returns with Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage (Viking; 285 pages), in which she is a vehemently wary second-time bride, due to be dragged down the aisle by Uncle Sam's immigration henchmen, who will otherwise toss her beloved, Brazilian-born "Felipe," as she calls the older man she met in the last section of EPL, out of the U.S. for good. They hadn't planned to marry. Like Gilbert, Felipe had endured a hard divorce, and they were content to be "lifers" together...
...millions of copies, is being made into a movie starring Julia Roberts and ended with Gilbert falling in love with a Brazilian man whom she later married. Now, after spending three years researching the institution of marriage - and scrapping her first, 500-page draft - Gilbert has published Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage. She spoke with TIME about the real cost of getting married young, her feelings on prenuptial agreements and what same-sex unions might really mean for marriage and family values...
...either side of the aisle: except for Graham, no other Republicans have endorsed a cap-and-trade system for carbon dioxide, and Dems are worried that passing it alone, a la health reform, will hurt them next November. And yet Graham, who was once such a climate change skeptic that he voted against McCain's global warming bills in 2003 and 2005, is pressing ahead and, amazingly, seems within reach of a deal. Ironically Graham credits McCain, who has since turned his back on the process, with turning him around. "Lindsey's been courageous," says Senator John Kerry...
...other e-mails, scientists appear to have trouble reconciling recent temperature data with the warming expected from climate models. And overall, the correspondence evinces climate scientists' outright scorn for global-warming skeptics; in one message, Ben Santer, a researcher from Lawrence Livermore Laboratory offers - presumably in jest - to "beat the crap out of" a leading skeptic...
Ultimately, though, we need to place Climategate/Swifthack in its proper context: amidst a decades-long effort by the fossil-fuel industry and other climate skeptics to undercut global-warming research - often by means that are far more nefarious than anything that appears in the CRU e-mails. George W. Bush's Administration attempted to censor NASA climatologist James Hansen, while the fossil-fuel industry group the Global Climate Coalition ignored its own scientists as it spread doubt about man-made global warming. That list of wrongdoing goes on. One of the main skeptic groups promoting the e-mail controversy...