Kabul's poor face a cold, harsh winter - Sacramento Living - Sacramento Food and Wine, Home, Health | Sacramento Bee

KABUL, Afghanistan -- In the gray light of each cold dawn, the parents of 10-month-old Shoaib hold their own breath as they listen for the rasp of his, waiting to see whether their coughing, feverish little boy has survived another night.

Winter's chill has settled over the Afghan capital, and with it, privation is sharpening, especially among the city's poor. Nighttime temperatures regularly fall into the teens, or even lower. The season's first snow is on the ground, the open sewage ditches are crusted over with ice, and in shantytowns such as the one where Shoaib's family lives, survival turns on a series of cruelly simple calculations.

Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> The Huffington Post’s Frankenjournalism

Last week, the Huffington Post unveiled a new science section. Science bloggers and science writers aren’t sure what to make of it. Some, such as Mark Hoofnagle, are cautiously hopeful. As he notes, the Huffington Post has up to now been notorious (at least in the science blogosphere) as a ”clearinghouse” for “liberal crankery,” featuring things “like Jenny McCarthy’s anti-vaccine crankery, or Bill Maher’s anti-pharma paranoia.” Can the site turn a new leaf? “Time will tell,” he says.

Twitter / @AskDrRuth: Turning out to be a warm w ...

 Turning out to be a warm winter worldwide. Global warming or are more couples heating things up under the sheets?

Weather Forecast Verkhoyansk, Russia

-58 °F

Chris Mooney | How to Get a Liberal to Question Global Warming

it isn’t like liberals and environmentalists are complete innocents all the time

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@MichaelEMann I see that @edbegleyjr speaking at the same event bit.ly/AnHzzz looking forward to that!