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...solution to the thin-air problem, it turned out, was to put the baseballs in a humidor, where a little added moisture would keep them earthbound. And the solution to the performance problem was to get better baseball players, but on the cheap. Thus, the new Monfort doctrine: No more free agents; more investment in the farm system. Yet the franchise continued to sink, and fans grew more vocal. The Monforts' defensive reply: Tough...
...Well, you're problem-solving at that point. You're working on it. It's only painful when the movie's done...
...obesity. The alarming increase in cancers is the result of a toxic environment. If a cure for cancer is found, it will be the result of a grass-roots campaign to stop the release of pollutants into the environment. Cancer science is working on the wrong end of the problem...
...usually a better bargain for the public. The state or city gets a new stretch of highway or a bridge or a tunnel, and it shifts risk to its private partner--a genuine benefit. If construction costs spike or expected traffic doesn't materialize, that's the company's problem. "We've had some governments say to us, 'I don't really need to be in that business,'" says Mark Florian, who oversees infrastructure deals for Goldman Sachs. These so-called greenfield projects are starting to catch on. And some states are getting savvy about how to structure the terms...
...future research on ways to mitigate and even reverse the current climatic trajectory. Gore and the IPCC have raised awareness about climate change, but progress to reduce or reverse climate change remains slow and unsteady. Momentous shifts in the national and global psyches will be necessary to confront the problem of climate change, as the Norwegian Nobel Committee expressed on Friday. Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man’s control...