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...would be different. The 2006 elections, coming on top of their gains in 2002 and 2004, would make history and perhaps even cement a G.O.P. majority in Congress for a generation. George W. Bush's credibility on national security and the states' aggressive gerrymandering, they believed, had turned the vast majority of districts into fortresses for incumbents. But that's not turning out to be the case. In recent weeks, a startling realization has begun to take hold: if the elections were held today, top strategists of both parties say privately, the Republicans would probably lose the 15 seats they...
...absorbs more heat and retains less water, increasing droughts ?Plants take in CO2 ?Fires release carbon ?Less carbon absorbed ?Soil dries out RISING TEMPERATURES MELT POLAR ICE AND PERMAFROST THAWING OUT The North Pole may be seasonally ice free by 2050. Melting permafrost will release vast amounts of trapped carbon into the air LESS ICE MEANS MORE HEAT WHICH MEANS LESS ICE SPEEDING UP Ice reflects nearly all the sun's energy that hits it. As the planet's ice melts, more of that energy is absorbed by Earth--which further raises the temperature. That...
...seats in the U.S. Senate and 15.4 percent in the U.S. House of Representatives, according to Budson. While women in other countries benefit from reserved seats and quotas, Budson said, one of the major challenges for women in the U.S. electoral system is incumbency. “The vast majority of seats go to incumbents; thus any change in the gender composition of elected officials will take decades,” wrote Iris Bohnet, KSG associate professor of public policy and WAPPP faculty chair, in an e-mail. The Oval Office program is expected to serve as a model...
...vast ignorance about the workings of life is not a popular theme in our media. Experts, and the people who write or talk about them, are paid for their knowledge and ability to communicate it,not for being awed by the vast complexity of the machinery of life or shocked by our ignorance of its most basic parts. But I, for one, am amazed that we're here at all. Look at the night sky - absolute zero of space, 200 million degrees of stars - that's what the great, great bulk of the universe is like. Not too conducive...
...sentence, rather than a lethal injection, for Moussaoui. Yet, it will arrive due to less-than-fortunate circumstances. This episode reveals an impermissible misconduct from the executive branch and its prosecuting arm. True, it is no easy task to prosecute immensely complex cases against terrorist suspects. But considering the vast amount of resources required to build and prosecute a case like Moussaoui’s, the Department of Justice must be much more careful with its own and other lawyers assisting in the prosecution. According to Brinkema’s ruling, Martin sent e-mails to the seven aviation officials...