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various french philosophers provide background commentary regarding the German philosopher Heidegger and Holderlein's poem "The Ister", which has something to do with the ancient Greek name for a portion of the Danube river.

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Robert Kennedy once said that "few of us have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events."

He doesn't lose the water right, he just chooses to apply that right, or some portion of it, to the stream, instead of to the land.

I was near the halfway point of the bike portion of one of the most prestigious, longest, single-day endurance race events in the world.

So why can't we say with confidence whether or not a significant portion of a continent-scale ice sheet will or will not collapse?

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