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Skating over the North Pole just got a little more dangerous. Scientists have found that the sheet of ice covering earth's northernmost area has become forty percent thinner over the past four decades -- possibly the result of global warming. But don't head for the mountains just yet. Since the melting came from ice already in the ocean, global water levels will remain roughly the same. While the melting has been linked to changing wind patterns around the Arctic, researchers aren't sure whether this is a direct result of global warming. Still, the news does reflect several possibly...
...nanotechnologists, engineers at places like M.I.T., Princeton University and Carnegie Mellon, who are already redefining the meaning of the word miniature. The prefix nano- refers to a billionth part of a unit--the size range these visionaries are talking about. Already, nanotechnologists have built gears and rotors far thinner than a human hair and tiny molecular "motors" only 50 atoms long...
There are limits, of course, to how many lives you can give a pile of debris. In the long run, we have to reduce the amount of material we use in the first place. Some progress is being made--aluminum cans and plastic soda bottles have become thinner over the years, for example--but more sweeping reductions will require a whole new kind of manufacturing process...
...disturbed than the patients spewed from the streets are. John Goodman as Larry enters with his overweight working man's charm and bravado, and the audience is fooled into thinking this will be the routine buddy-cop movie with jolly, fat guy exchanging caustic one-liners with his thinner, but emotionally more substantive, partner. However, as the wheels spin out, the film takes the audience along for a more complex, hellish ride that visits death, madness, and despair on every street corner. Ving Rhames as Marcus brightens the movie with a comic volubility that the heavy film so badly needs...
...percent of fifth grade girls who diet? I'm not saying we would've written the great American novel--although it's rather nice to think so. It's just that it's such a waste, such a terrible waste. We are, for the most part, no fatter or thinner than we were when we started out, despite our neurotic attention to the matter. We may gain and lose a little weight here and there, but more often than not, it all comes back to the same, basic body...