The "Three Degrees Rule" may have evolved with the human species, the authors argue.
The rapid meltback this year is probably due to anomalous weather patterns over the Arctic which have brought temperatures one to three degrees above the decadal averages for 1981-2010.
The Met Office said that from 1 March to 26 March the UK mean temperature was 2.5C, which is three degrees below the long-term average.
He used the example of a mother who loses her job and then sees "a clever, young Latvian with three degrees doing the job she would like to do".
The problem, shared in varying degrees by all three nations, is the widespread belief, held by both the cynical and the naive, that government can increase our productivity and welfare by becoming itself an active participant in our economic affairs.
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Having just spent 10 days with the family in Florida where, apparently, the temperature is a whole three degrees warmer than Toronto, travel will be a theme of my next few posts.
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Over 90% of new hires in the past three years have at least four-year university degrees, versus 30% in the late 1980s.
The IPCC computer models predict a much larger warming, three degrees Celsius or even more, because they assume changes in water vapor or clouds that supposedly amplify the direct warming from CO2.
People have profound influences on each other's behavior within three degrees of separation, the authors find.
In order to be in line with the chance to follow the 2 degrees C trajectory we need to change our way of consuming energy within the next three or four years.
He puts the cells in one of three dozen refrigerator-size incubators operating at 98.6 degrees, where they will grow into the main component of Lucanix, a cancer vaccine he developed.
My wife and daughter are public school teachers and I am the beneficiary of 20 years of public education with three degrees from state universities, including a doctorate in education.
Their standard short, specialised degrees suit only the well prepared: in three years there is no time for a ruthless weeding-out after one year, as is common elsewhere in Europe, or for a broad education before choosing a major subject, as in America.
Hsu graduated from the University of Washington at age 16 with three bachelor of science degrees.
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The system was designed by three women to encourage girls to pursue degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
The foundation laid by my parents empowered me to succeed in earning three degrees.
From there the trash is fed into three boilers that burn at 2, 000 degrees, heating water to create steam that spins a 60-megawatt turbine.
Although the world's largest oil rig finally stopped sinking yesterday--four days after three explosions left it lurching more than 30 degrees--the accident could cost Brazil's Petrobras , which owns the 40-story platform, half a billion dollars.
In experiments on dogs they have found that by pumping liters of ice-cold salt water into their arteries and cooling them down to 59 degrees they can preserve vital organs up to three hours after the heart stops.
And three-year Bachelors degrees followed by two-year Masters are now the general rule, with few exceptions.
Freezing temperatures in eastern Bolivia (normally above 68 degrees Fahrenheit) killed millions of fish in three major rivers, and the freeze was viewed as an environmental catastrophe.
The French, Spanish, Irish, Dutch, Portuguese, Greeks, Slovenians, Slovakians and Cypriots have to varying degrees voted against the currency bloc's economic model since the crisis began three years ago.
White voters without college degrees - who made up two-thirds of the electorate - backed Mrs Clinton three to one, according to surveys conducted by the AP news agency.
According to the National Science Foundation, during the last half-century, foreign-born students earned three-quarters of U.S. doctorate degrees in mathematics, engineering and computer science.
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The building was actually three small buildings that over the years had been joined together with a hodge-podge of exteriors and varying degrees of obvious wear and tear.
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They then heated the crystal for 24 hours to up to 2, 700 degrees Fahrenheit--a process that forces the crystal surface to reorganize itself into a sawtooth pattern at three-nanometer intervals (at that breadth, 30, 000 such jagged edges side by side would be as wide as one human hair).
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