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...penalty was saved by Gianluigi Buffon. The Poles never had a chance. Nor did the Austrians, although you'd never know it from the support the team got. Now, the cafes of Vienna have been drained by the dismissal of the Austrian side, and none of the natives seem inclined to switch allegiance to Turkey, despite the many thousands of Turks living here...
Fighting Memory Loss Looking around and within, memory loss does seem normal [June 9]. The real question we should ask is, is it speeding up? I am curious to know if any research has been conducted to study the effects of household chemicals or radiation on memory loss. Widespread use of chemicals has pervaded our lifestyle. Similarly, we spend more time in front of computer monitors, TV sets and gaming consoles, and rely on wireless networks, cell phones and other electronic devices, increasing our exposure to a whole gamut of electromagnetic waves. Would it not be worthwhile to study...
...generals' motives seem to be not so much avoiding justice as accumulating wealth. At first glance, it's hard to see how anyone could profit from a country where unemployment is at 80% and inflation is 165,000%. But the regime works the chaos to its advantage. The seizure of white-owned farms since 2000, endorsed by Mugabe as a long-overdue redistribution of land to Zimbabwe's black majority, has benefited the ZANU-PF élite. A senior army officer warns that the generals will use any means necessary to hold onto their riches. Should the June 27 vote...
...urgent that the government seems ready to spend what it would take to truly revive the dead zone. Although Grumbles points out that an action plan isn't the same thing as a budget allocation, there's little evidence that anyone is prepared to bear the financial burden of drastically reducing fertilizer runoff in the Midwest. (It doesn't help that 31 states feed into the Mississippi River basin, or that multiple federal agencies are involved with the dead-zone task force.) A 2007 report by the National Research Council called for more aggressive leadership by the EPA to coordinate...
...zones are having a cumulative effect, with smaller amounts of nitrates and other chemicals in the Gulf having a larger hypoxic impact than in the past. "We have to decide how much we're willing to spend to save the Gulf fisheries," says Daigle. "Right now, we don't seem to be willing to invest much." Put simply, the Gulf is running out of air - and we're running out of time...