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...waters. But now that global warming has rendered the Arctic more accessible than ever - and yet at the same time more fragile - a new frenzy has broken out for control of the trade routes at the top of the world and the riches that nations hope and believe may lie beneath the ice. Just as 150 years ago, when Russia and Britain fought for control of central Asia, it is tempting to think that - not on the steppe or dusty mountains but in the icy wastes of the frozen north - a new Great Game is afoot...
...inherent drawback of self-reporting is the tendency for respondents to simply lie about their illicit drug use, for obvious reasons. To address this problem, SAMHSA introduced hand-held computer modules in 1999, eliminating the need for a government mediator to administer the survey face-to-face. To encourage better response rates, the agency began offering a $30 cash incentive. More recently, a new challenge has arisen: as the number of Spanish-speaking Americans continues to grow, officials face problems in translation. Certain Spanish words mean different things to Puerto Ricans than they do to Cubans or Mexicans, according...
...down, eventually jump-starting the Industrial Revolution, and allowing, for the first time in history, economic growth to outpace population growth. England's exploding prosperity, then, depended on the cultural, and perhaps even biological, transmission of those values. "The triumph of capitalism in the modern world thus may lie as much in our genes as in ideology or rationality," Clark concludes...
Call it a sideways moment. New Zealand vintners Sam Neill and Adam Peren are surveying a rugged hillside vineyard and discussing why Pinot Noir is the most sensuous and elusive of wines. "If Pinot were a woman, she'd be Audrey Tautou in Amélie," says Neill. "Kristin Scott Thomas," offers Peren. "No, Kristin's a dry Riesling," Neill insists...
...biggest hurdle in making the system effective could still lie ahead, according to Bryan Crum, a spokesman for Omnilert—the company providing Harvard’s alert system...