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<div>Washington Post - March 5, 2016</div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#1F1F1F">Enough with trashing
liberal arts. It's gotten old - and really, well,
stupid.</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva">Trashing the liberal arts seems to have
become practically a sport among some politicians these days.<font
color="#0E0E0E"> Maybe they think that the "liberal" in "liberal
arts" is a political reference, which it isn't.</font></font><br>
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Valerie Strauss</font></div>
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redistributions -----------------------------------------</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">"The rate of
movement that occurs in response to changes in climate, whether fast
or slow, will shape the distribution of natural ecosystems in the
decades to come. .... We demonstrate that the
effectiveness of plant migration strongly influences carbon storage,
evapotranspiration, and the absorption of solar radiation by the land
surface. As a result, plant migration affects the magnitude, and in
some cases the sign, of feedbacks from the land surface to the climate
system."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">PAUL A. T. HIGGINS
AND JOHN HARTE.</font><font face="Verdana Bold" size="-1"
color="#000000"> Biophysical and Biogeochemical Responses to Climate
Change Depend on Dispersal and Migration</font><font
face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">. BioScience May 2006 /
Vol. 56 No. 5 * © 2006 American Institute of Biological
Sciences.</font></div>
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