It is extremely difficult to measure weather consistently over decades and centuries, but the presence of sites reporting cooling is a symptom of the local variations that can creep in, according to researchers.

CNN: New climate study deals blow to skeptics

In the past few decades, medical science has rendered obsolete centuries of experience, tradition, and language about our mortality, and created a new difficulty for mankind: how to die.

NEWYORKER: Letting Go

Mr. Lenz and other German bomb disposal experts said it could be still decades, or even centuries, before nearly all of the tens of thousands of still-unexploded bombs estimated to be buried throughout Germany are discovered.

WSJ: German City to Evacuate as 2-Ton Bomb Is Defused

More than four decades of research puts the total estimated volume of slaves exported at roughly 11-12m between the 15th and 19th centuries.

ECONOMIST: Evasive action