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Papa put a man on the moon
Marthanne's whole community is excited about the moon landing, and Marthanne is especially proud because her father helped create the fabric for the astronauts' spacesuits.
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Borders and the Relocation of Europe
The current financial and fiscal crisis within the Eurozone is the latest in a series of events to have occurred in recent decades that have been altering the meaning, purpose, and form of European borders. These events include the multiple border-altering experiments of the European Union (EU), the end of the Cold War, and the conflicts in former Yugoslavia. Cumulatively, the position of Europe, as a place and as an idea, has been undergoing considerable relocation as a result. This large-scale political reorganization of spatial location has led to a shift in focus within European border studies: The way the ground underneath people's feet can be shifted turns out to be as important as the way people themselves move from one place to another, or the way people form politically inflected identities in relation to territories.
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Dancing daze
When her friend's sister wins the lead role in the Budapest Ballet Company's latest production and does not seem pleased, Amy and her aunt decide to do some snooping to uncover the problem.
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Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming
The consensus that humans are causing recent global warming is shared by 90%-100% of publishing climate scientists according to six independent studies by co-authors of this paper. Those results are consistent with the 97% consensus reported by Cook et al (Environ. Res. Lett. 8 024024) based on 11 944 abstracts of research papers, of which 4014 took a position on the cause of recent global warming. A survey of authors of those papers (N = 2412 papers) also supported a 97% consensus. Tol (2016 Environ. Res. Lett. 11 048001) comes to a different conclusion using results from surveys of non-experts such as economic geologists and a self-selected group of those who reject the consensus. We demonstrate that this outcome is not unexpected because the level of consensus correlates with expertise in climate science. At one point, Tol also reduces the apparent consensus by assuming that abstracts that do not explicitly state the cause of global warming ('no position') represent non-endorsement, an approach that if applied elsewhere would reject consensus on well-established theories such as plate tectonics. We examine the available studies and conclude that the finding of 97% consensus in published climate research is robust and consistent with other surveys of climate scientists and peer-reviewed studies.
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Elizabeth Warren : nevertheless, she persisted
The story of the first woman senator from Massachusetts, a modern-day feminist icon who reminds us to be outspoken, to resist, and--most importantly--to persist.
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Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature
We analyze the evolution of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, examining 11 944 climate abstracts from 1991-2011 matching the topics 'global climate change' or 'global warming'. We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on AGW, 32.6% endorsed AGW, 0.7% rejected AGW and 0.3% were uncertain about the cause of global warming. Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming. In a second phase of this study, we invited authors to rate their own papers. Compared to abstract ratings, a smaller percentage of self-rated papers expressed no position on AGW (35.5%). Among self-rated papers expressing a position on AGW, 97.2% endorsed the consensus. For both abstract ratings and authors' self-ratings, the percentage of endorsements among papers expressing a position on AGW marginally increased over time. Our analysis indicates that the number of papers rejecting the consensus on AGW is a vanishingly small proportion of the published research.
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Carol Gilligan and the search for voice
\"A biography of the life and work of groundbreaking developmental psychologist Carol Gilligan, who has devoted her life to the discovering, uncovering, and recovering of voices underrepresented people, as well as reconceptualizing traditionally held views on moral and identity development in young people\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Welcome to the Neighborhood
How to live with difference-not necessarily in peace, but with
resilience, engagement, and a lack of vitriol-is a defining worry
in America at this moment. The poets, fiction writers, and
essayists (plus one graphic novelist) who contributed to
Welcome to the Neighborhood don't necessarily offer
roadmaps to harmonious neighboring. Some of their narrators don't
even want to be neighbors. Maybe they grieve, or rage. Maybe they
briefly find resolution or community. But they do approach the
question of what it means to be neighbors, and how we should do it,
with open minds and nuance.
The many diverse contributors give this collection a depth
beyond easy answers. Their attentions to the theme of
neighborliness as an ongoing evolution offer hope to readers:
possible pathways for rediscovering community, even just by way of
a shared wish for it. The result is an enormously rich resource for
the classroom and for anyone interested in reflecting on what it
means to be American today, and how place and community play a
part.
Contributors include Leila Chatti, Rita Dove, Jonathan
Escoffery, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Amina Gautier, Ross Gay, Mark
Halliday, Joy Harjo, Edward Hirsch, Marie Howe, Sonya Larson, Dinty
W. Moore, Robert Pinsky, Christine Schutt, and many more.
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Cryptocurrencies in public and private law
This book examines how cryptocurrencies based on blockchain technologies fit into existing general law categories of public and private law. The book takes the common law systems of the United Kingdom as the centre of its study but extends beyond the UK to show how cryptocurrencies would be accommodated in some Western European and East Asian legal systems outside the common law tradition.0By investigating traditional conceptions of money in public law and private law the work examines the difficulties of fitting cryptocurrencies within those approaches and models. Fundamental questions regarding issues of ownership, transfer, conflict of laws, and taxation are addressed with a view to equipping the reader with the tools to answer common transactional questions about cryptocurrencies. The international contributor team uses the common law systems of the United Kingdom as a basis for the analysis, but also looks comparatively to other systems across the wider common law and civil law world to provide detailed examination of the legal problems encountered.
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Boston Harbor
The Winter 2023-24 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares \"the Triton among minnows.\" The Winter 2023-24 Issue, edited by Ladette Randolph, features poetry and prose by Richard Bausch, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Ian Stansel, Ariana Benson, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Marie Howe, and more.
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