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...Swampland: Hamas on Obama - 'We Want Words Matched With Deeds...
...study published in the April 16 issue of Nature argues that our ice sheets may be far more vulnerable than we believe, and that it may be a matter of decades before cities like New York are turned into swampland. Scientists led by Paul Blanchon of the National Autonomous University of Mexico examined sea-level fluctuations during the planet's last inter-ice age warm period, about 121,000 years ago, and found that the water rose as much as 10 ft. (3 m) in a matter of decades thanks to melting ice sheets. That conclusion indicates that...
...this cycle by assistant managing editor Michael Duffy, ably assisted by Washington bureau chief Jay Carney. We also covered the election superbly in real time on TIME.com--spearheaded by TIME.com politics editor Daniel Eisenberg. The indefatigable Mark Halperin drove the daily conversation on The Page, and our political blog, Swampland, was a round-the-clock buffet of ideas, observations and anecdotes. Our national political correspondent Karen Tumulty was everywhere. Michael Scherer covered John McCain; Jay Newton-Small was on Obama, and Nathan Thornburgh excelled on Sarah Palin. And of course, the remarkable Joe Klein may have had his greatest election...
...lush with volatility and flimflam. As Groucho Marx's real estate huckster warned in The Cocoanuts in 1929, "You can even get stucco! Oh, how you can get stucco." But eventually, the lies always seemed to come true, because there were always new dreamers from cold climates, and worthless swampland was just a drainage canal and a zoning variance away from becoming a golf-course subdivision...
...talk about Obama's rumor-fighting plan, go to Swampland...