Subway suffers cucumber shortage - Newstalk ZB

Subway marketing manager David Herrick says there is a seasonal shortage of cucumbers due to the cold weather.
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Six inch subs will now get two slices of cucumber instead of three and foot longs will get four slices instead of six.

New York Times environmental reporter Andrew C. Revkin records the worst song ever written | Liberal Media Bias Exposed by IHateTheMedia.com

Back in February, 2009, we posted a story about Neil Young’s new CD and called it the worst CD ever recorded. But New York Times environmental blogger Andrew C. Revkin has just recorded a new song that gives Young some stiff competition.

Revkin, it turns out, is no mere reporter. He is a singer/songwriter extraordinaire. And when we say extraordinaire, we mean shitty.

Books on Science - When the Day After Tomorrow Has Come - NYTimes.com

Meanwhile, there has been relatively little discussion so far about who would make geoengineering decisions — would the world accept an American president in charge of the decision to go ahead? Assuming we could tune the Earth to a desirable temperature, who would say what that temperature would be? What side effects would be acceptable? Who would be compensated for suffering them. And so on.
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Participants I spoke with were at a loss. “World government,” one of them, finally, offered. The answer does not inspire confidence either.