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Sunday, April 1, 2007

Gore rides the tide

I mentioned on Brainiac recently that Al Gore got off a Capitol Hill zinger in which he appeared to poke fun at Michael Crichton's "State of Fear."

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But what if Gore was actually talking about a different science fiction novel about catastrophic climatic change? That's the premise of a short item I've contributed to today's Ideas section...

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