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Some say that Scott Brown's election makes President Obama a lame duck already. Obama even said to Diane Sawyer, “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.” The Republican win in Massachusetts, while unusual for such a reliable blue state, is just another result of the electorate being pushed too far too fast. After Obama was elected, one got the impression that the Democrats said, "Oh boy! Now we can really go to town!" ... that is, "fix" everything.

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This is rich

By Steve Erbach on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 5:32 AM

In 1999 an Indian scientist (make that "little-known Indian scientist", according to the Times Online), speculated that the Himalayan glaciers in the central and eastern parts of that enormous mountain range would all be gone by 2035. It was just a guess, and he was the only one saying it. His remarks never appeared in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

New Scientist magazine interviewed the scientist, Syed Hasnain, by e-mail and reported his comments. Hasnain was at the time the chairman of the International Commission on Snow and Ice's working group on Himalayan glaciology.

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