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...earthquake shook up more than the capital city. It exposed the corrupt political system and gave heart to a remarkably talented (if occasionally arrogant) set of technocrats. Forgiving the mid-1990s, when the peso had to be rescued by the Clinton Administration, the Mexican economy has shown great resilience in the past 20 years as Mexico oriented itself to the outside world, joined the World Trade Organization and signed the North American Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. and Canada. Even in the first years of this decade, when the shift of global manufacturing to China threatened to derail Mexican...
...study took advantage of the university's unique Biosphere 2 research facility. The 7.2 million-cubic-foot dome - famous for an experiment in the early 1990s when eight people lived inside it for two years - allows scientists to recreate almost any climate on Earth. Adams and his collaborators kept two groups of piñon trees inside Biosphere 2 in nearly identical conditions. One key difference: for the experimental group, researchers ramped up the temperature 7° Fahrenheit (4° Celsius), the rough midpoint of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's business-as-usual predictions for warming in this...
...Still, Beijing has won big playing this game before. During the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, China refused to devalue the yuan, which helped prevent a further run by speculators on Asian currencies. All the while, Beijing reminded other Asian governments of how the West had failed to come to their rescue. By the end of the crisis, China, previously viewed with suspicion by its Asian neighbors, had built a reputation as a benevolent regional power. During last month's session of China's National People's Congress, President Hu said: "Challenge and opportunity always come together. Under...
...Shura Council, a legal advisory body that reviews drafts before they can be passed to the Cabinet and parliament, is vetting the anti-trafficking bill. It's not the first of its kind in Iraq. The old penal code included a law issued in 1969 and amended in the 1990s that outlawed and penalized trafficking...
...doesn't help that Somalis have a marked aversion to foreign forces. Fiercely conservative and suspicious of outsiders, the country bristled under the failed U.N. peacekeeping mission in the early 1990s and the Ethiopia occupation over the past few years. "The sea and the land are the same," says Abdinaser Biyokulule, a pirate recruiter in the pirate haven of Bossaso. "Foreign troops did not succeed on land, so they will not succeed in the sea either...