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...Jolo-based head of Task Force Comet, the Philippines' counterterrorism effort. He believes Abu Sayyaf, which once boasted more than 1,000 men under arms, now numbers at most 250 fighters who dare not move around in groups of more than a dozen. Hard-core membership, Sabban says, has shrunk...
...That's all but impossible to do under current market conditions. Competition between factories is fierce, and their profit margins have shrunk. There's a glut of Chinese and Indian factories competing for Western clients, so if a factory doesn't pass audits, multinationals can just walk across the street. With the Chinese workweek capped at about 50 hours (including overtime), strict new labor laws and growing competition for workers, it's getting tougher to comply with the law, pay the minimum wage, make order deadlines - and earn a profit. Says Rosey Hurst, founder of Impactt, an ethical trade...
...plant - roughly how much it now costs to build one - still haven't encouraged private industry to back the atomic revival. At the same time, the price of building a plant - all that concrete and steel - has risen dramatically in recent years, while the nuclear workforce has aged and shrunk. Nuclear supporters like Moore who argue that atomic plants are much cheaper than renewables tend to forget the sky-high capital costs, not to mention the huge liability risk of an accident - the insurance industry won't cover a nuclear plant, so it's up to government...
...easily breed complacency, until it bursts on Commencement Day, and we have to start thinking about mortgages. What a coincidence that we are in the midst of our own housing crisis on campus, one so serious that Harvard has banned college transfers for the 2008-2009 academic year and shrunk the incoming freshman class...
...polar ice cap has shrunk by more than 20 percent since 1979. Over the past century, global temperatures have risen between 1.08 degress fahrenheit and 1.62 degress fahrenheit—a steep increase considering that during the last ice age the globe was only 9 degress fahrenheit to 15 degress fahrenheit cooler than today. Global warming has already caused sea levels to rise between four and eight inches, and experts predict that if the Greenland ice sheet melted, it would submerge significant parts of many coastal cities around the world , including nearby Boston...