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NY Times- Syrian Troops Said to Strike Town Near Lebanon May 19, 2013The Syrian military on Sunday launched an offensive to retake a strategic rebel-held town near the Lebanese border, a government official said.
- Joseph Farman, 82, Is Dead; Discovered Ozone Hole May 19, 2013Mr. Farman’s single-minded and at times officially derided study of atmospheric changes in the Antarctic led to one of the most important environmental discoveries of the 20th century.
- Kenneth N. Waltz, Who Helped Shape International Relations as a Discipline, Dies at 88 May 19, 2013Mr. Waltz, who was a senior research scholar at Columbia, was a pre-eminent thinker who was known for his contrarian, debate-provoking ideas.
- Pakistan’s Railroads Sum Up Nation’s Woes May 19, 2013A journey across Pakistan’s crumbling railway presents a picture of the country’s troubles: natural disasters and hardened insurgencies, abject poverty and feudal kleptocrats, and an economy near meltdown.
- Syrian Troops Said to Strike Town Near Lebanon May 19, 2013
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- Across Colorado, families look for missing children May 19, 2013Across Colorado, dozens of families are looking for missing children. Some have been searching for months for decades. For some, it can be hard to convince investigators to go after very cold leads.
- Regis Jesuit star on fast track to fame with 100-200-400 sweep May 19, 2013Dozens of boys and girls called themselves the fastest in the state at Saturday's state track and field meet at Jeffco Stadium. Senior Ana Holland of Regis Jesuit High, however, had a higher calling. The fastest in the nation. In two events.
- Chatwood excels for Rockies on mound in easy win over Giants May 19, 2013As major-league pitchers go, Tyler Chatwood is not very big. The Rockies' media guide generously lists him as 6-feet, 185 pounds. But what Chatwood lacks in stature he makes up for with tenacity and firepower.
- Push underway in Colorado Springs to recall Senate president Morse May 19, 2013It's rare to find a Democrat representing Senate District 11, especially in a part of the state where most of the surrounding Senate districts are Republican strongholds.
- Incoming Aurora school superintendent will build on positive trends May 19, 2013When Rico Munn heard on the radio that Aurora Public Schools superintendent John Barry would retire after seven years running the 40,000-student district, he felt the tug on a gut level.
- Police jobs are tough to fill in some small Colorado towns May 19, 2013MONTROSE — Tom Chinn chose law enforcement as a career 40 years ago and has never turned back.
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Opinion: Global warming comes out of the closet
The remnants of Sandy swirl over the Northeast in the NASA satellite image.
Hurricane Sandy spurs awareness of links between climate change and extreme weather
By Bob Berwyn
FRISCO — Along with devastating New Jersey’s shoreline and flooding big chunks of New York City, Hurricane Sandy also pushed the public dialogue about climate change out of the musty closet and right smack into the middle of polite dinner table conversation and, even more importantly, into the political arena, just days before the presidential election.
After a couple of days surveying the damage, both the mayor of New York City and the governor of New York directly addressed the issue in a social and political context. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an independent, factored climate change into a political endorsement of Barack Obama as the candidate better equipped to tackle the issue.
“In In just 14 months, two hurricanes have forced us to evacuate neighborhoods — something our city government had never done before. If this is a trend, it is simply not sustainable,” Bloomberg wrote in an editorial for the Bloomberg View. (more…)
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