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What's more, none of that includes a new X factor: global warming. Some areas of the world will grow wetter as a result of climate change, but others will grow dryer, and so far the drying is winning. The area of the earth's land surface classified as very dry has doubled since the 1970s; by 2050, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believes, that trend will worsen. "You do the math, and it gets a little scary," says Stuart Minchin, a water expert with the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization. (See pictures of Australia, the driest inhabited...
...first postelection interview that "any sensible person" would favor a playoff system to determine who's No. 1. And that was before the Oklahoma Sooners sped past Texas in this year's race to the BCS title game despite losing to the Longhorns 45-35 in October--a result purists say should logically make Texas the higher-ranked team...
...course, the greed and incompetence was not limited to a few individuals, but nearly systemic. As a result, finding out who is responsible for the collapse of our economy is as difficult as determining who is responsible for the death of Jdimytai Damour, the Wal-Mart employee who was trampled to death last Friday by around 2,000 people who continued shopping after it was announced that an employee had been killed. Both of these mishaps were the result of a large number of people acting irresponsibly and arguably some acting criminally...
North Korean poverty is a result of a dearth of market opportunity, not agricultural inability, said University of Warwick Professor Hazel Smith to an audience of about thirty at Harvard’s Korea Institute yesterday...
...World War II. The liquor exports of Europe declined and because tequila was made in the Americas its sales skyrocketed in the United States. But demand severely outpaced supplied. The plant used to make tequila, agave, takes an average of eight to ten years to fully mature. As a result, “mixto tequila,” watered-down tequila mixed with unknown materials, was shipped to the United States to feed the demand. This scared Americans of the taste of tequila. Suros said that thanks to Mexico’s new-found popularity it has become a prominent...