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According to a new report released last week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a highly respected group of international scientists assembled by the United Nations Environment Programme, that indeed is the now-undeniable human contribution to and causation of global warming. The panel, (which issued two prior assessments in 1995 and 1990), made a dramatic shift from their earlier, more conservative stance as a result of five years of intensive research compiled by teams around the world. This report placed the onus for the trend squarely upon the shoulders of a society whose reckless burning of fossil fuels...
Marijuana use among U.S. college students rose 22 percent over the past decade, according to a study released this week by the Harvard School of Public Health. And "very competitive" colleges in the Northeast posted the largest increases...
...came into the week wanting to take the league game from Dartmouth," said co-captain Brooke McCarthy. "A win against any of the other three non-Ivy teams would have been great for our NCAA standing...
...sure hasn't gone their way this week...
...goes with the mean stuff. "Democrats stepped up attacks on George W. Bush as unprepared to be president, as he dismissed the charges by noting 'that's what they said about Ronald Reagan.' As the campaign entered its final week, Democratic officials led by vice-presidential nominee Joseph Lieberman, echoing the theme of a new series of Al Gore campaign ads, hit Mr. Bush hard on his qualifications for the White House. Mr. Gore isn't joining in the criticism, however, insisting he is above such nastiness...