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...much as Mike, Nisha and Becky would like us to believe otherwise, not every person opposed to abortion is a violent, trigger-happy, Christian fundamentalist fanatic...
...Vanity does not cause cancer. Countering previous reports, a study of the personal habits of 573,369 women found that long-term use of hair dyes does not trigger fatal malignancies...
...Right when I was about to pull the trigger, I stepped back and thought about how messy my room would get [if I went through with it]," William says. "That's the effect intervention would have...
Nobody knows what other factors might help trigger climate shifts, and how sensitive they are. "It scares us," says Alley. "We know that there are times when climate is very delicately poised. We know that for the past 8,000 or 10,000 years, it hasn't flipped over. But we don't really understand it well enough to say whether it's really stable or whether we are on thin...
...full-fledged Ice Age is upon us, a shorter episode of frigid conditions could happen at any time. The last interglacial period was warmer than this one and also, arguably, more unstable. It is conceivable that the greenhouse effect could heat up the planet for a while but then trigger changes that could plunge the earth into a sudden chill. And for an idea of what a mini-Ice Age might be like, just imagine last week's cold wave lasting all winter, every winter -- for the next thousand years...