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...also linked growth in Mexico's Gross Domestic Product to a rise in spending on education. The country's national expenditures on education have risen from 3.8 percent of GDP in 1988 to 5.5 percent...
...recipients has also steadily increased. The war on drugs has turned out to be little more than a skirmish awarding drug dealers the decided victory. In a city where the policemen must use pistols to fend against semi-automatic machine guns, it's small wonder that crime has steadily risen. In fact, New York currently leads the nation in number of policeman shot this year...
...want to boost the oxidizing power of the atmosphere. If tropospheric ozone levels had not risen over the past 100 years, we'd in trouble," Jacob says. "But at the same time we dump pollutants that need to be destroyed, we dump more ozone to destroy them...
...letter said grades in the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities have all risen since the 1960s, but made clear that increases in the humanities have been the most pronounced, Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz said yesterday...
History issues grim warnings about the future of cities. Since the beginning of civilization, they have risen to greatness only to collapse because of epidemics, warfare, ecological calamities, shifts in trade or social disorder. Calah, Tikal and Angkor are among the fabled places that disappeared into the sands or jungles of time. Surviving cities have undergone wild swings of fortune. Alexandria, Egypt, may have housed several hundred thousand people at its peak in Roman times, but when Napoleon entered it in 1798, it had shrunk to 4,000 souls. Since then, it has again boomed to nearly 3 million...