Top tips for this summer's hottest (coldest, wettest and driest) looks | Fashion | The Guardian

In the old days, one's wardrobe reflected the changing seasons. Now that we live in a seemingly seasonless country (mild winters, cold summers, rain all the time) could you give top tips on looking seasonal while staying warm (in summer) and not too warm (in winter)?
Holly, west London

Saved from an icy death - South Africa - Times LIVE

Survivors of the weekend's worst weather told of their "hair-raising" ordeals before reaching safety. Many feared they would freeze to death.

Energy Revolution 2: A Post Post-American Post | Via Meadia

Forget peak oil; forget the Middle East. The energy revolution of the 21st century isn’t about solar energy or wind power and the “scramble for oil” isn’t going to drive global politics. The energy abundance that helped propel the United States to global leadership in the 19th and 2oth centuries is back; if the energy revolution now taking shape lives up to its full potential, we are headed into a new century in which the location of the world’s energy resources and the structure of the world’s energy trade support American affluence at home and power abroad.

By some estimates, the United States has more oil than Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran combined, and Canada may have even more than the United States.

Lobster Glut Slams Prices - WSJ.com

Prices at the dock have fallen to as low as $1.25 a pound in some areas—roughly 70% below normal and a nearly 30-year-low for this time of year, according to fishermen, researchers and officials. The reason: an unseasonably warm winter created a supply glut throughout the Atlantic lobster fishery.