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Reports about the ozone layer are as maddeningly variable as the protective shield itself. Estimates of the problem's severity fluctuate virtually with each new set of measurements from the atmosphere. Unfortunately, the estimates do seem to possess one common thread: they are getting worse. Last week's announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency that the shield may be | disappearing nearly twice as fast in northern latitudes as many scientists had predicted is the most alarming report to date. The study noted that the loss was occurring both farther south, over the most populous regions of the U.S., and later...
Jeffrey called the archives "a thread to the past that gives us a vision, a belief...
...locations discussed in this magazine were visited by students on vacation; the other two are the authors' hometowns. But a common thread runs through them all-a sincere, and often humorous, disdain for tourist hotspots, accompanied by a healthy reverence for the unique. Three of the authors cannot help but mention the presence of Polo outlets in their respective vacation-spots, while the cliched myth of local authenticity is even debunked by a humorous look at a disastrous trip to Tahiti...
...rates prisoners A through C for the value of their knowledge, and 1 through 3 for their willingness to talk. About 1 in 4 of the more than 2,000 EPWs are defectors. Many braved threats of execution or reprisals against their families at home and had to thread through minefields to reach coalition forces...
...Powers Resolution, which instructs a President to withdraw troops 60 days after they are dispatched unless Congress approves the deployment or grants an extension. No President has ever recognized the constitutionality of that Vietnam-era resolution, and Congress has given up hope that it could use such a slender thread to reel in the massive military machine in the gulf...