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These aren't just hypothetical situations. These events happened over the span of the last two weeks, and countless more disasters happen like them every day. In these two cases, the computer's owners were very lucky that none of their data was lost or damaged...
...like we are very much the same people. We span East Coast to West Coast, from New York to Oregon. People-wise and interestwise and belief-wise, we are very diverse...
...climate record shows that the whole 8,000-year span of human civilization, from the dawn of cities to space flight, has taken place during a period of extraordinary warmth and stability. The past 150 years, which have seen the industrial and information ages, have been even more remarkably clement. The experience has left humanity with the notion that climate is warm and stable. But those who look at the past know different. "Climate is an angry beast," says Lamont's Wallace Broeker, "and we are poking it with sticks...
...conclusion to the first section, Historical Background and Original Intent, admits, "The substance of the Core has changed since its inception [in 1974] as scholarship has changed" (p. 16). Even within a 20-year span, the grand scheme for educating Harvard students has had to accommodate progress in the academy. It is de facto a malleable entity, intended to provide breadth of knowledge and approaches thereto in the face of ever-changing facts, theories and hierarchies of importance...
...because it grants local broadcasters preferential access to cable networks. As a result, national cable channels such as Comedy Central and Fox News can't muscle their way into some desirable full cable systems. "More than 3.5 million viewers have lost access to all or part of the C-Span networks since the "must carry' rule became law in October 1992," said C-Span Chairman Brian Lamb. But in a 5-4 ruling, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that the law ensures that non-cable subscribers (about 40 percent of all U.S. households) have the same access to information and entertainment...