Friday April 23rd, 2010

Hot Air

Climate change is too important to leave to the experts. For years now, partisans on both sides of the climate issue have flung graphs, glaciers and hockey sticks at each other, generating as much heat as greenhouse gases, but little consensus. For most Americans, climate change arrived on Thursday, June 23, 1988. This was the […]

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Friday February 19th, 2010

Man-Made Personal Climate Change

The modern head cold is the price for an uncovered head. Even in men, bareness—hairy or clean—is thought to be sexy. It originated with the rise of both informal photography and the fashion for the outdoorsy look, culminating in President John F. Kennedy’s famous bushy mane shining in the sun of his 1961 Inauguration. (Ever […]

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