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...often spilled over into violence - have long been a feature of the Spanish game. "This kind of behavior began 20 years ago in isolated incidents," says Esteban Ibarra, president of the Movement Against Intolerance, an ngo that monitors the incidence of racial abuse in Spain. "But it has spread, propagated through the media, and it has contaminated not just soccer stadiums but Spanish society at large." Indeed, racist insults at Spanish soccer games are now almost routine. A year ago, members of the same Zaragoza crowd pelted Eto'o with peanuts, and in January Zaragoza were fined after a group...
...that contributed to the death of at least 20,000 Europeans in August 2003. Other predictions are more tenuous. For example, rising temperatures could--if rainfall and other conditions are right--result in larger mosquito populations at higher elevations in the tropics, which could in turn contribute to the spread of malaria, dengue and other insect-borne infections. Early indications are not encouraging. The World Health Organization (WHO) believes that even the modest increases in average temperature that have occurred since the 1970s have begun to take a toll. Climate change is responsible for at least 150,000 extra deaths...
...however, as you move upward in elevation. Malaria has seen a dramatic upswing since the 1970s in highland cities like Nairobi (around 5,500 ft. above sea level). How much of that can be tied to temperature increases--as opposed to population movement, lapses in mosquito control or the spread of drug-resistant parasites--is a matter of debate. But because each year there are at least 300 million cases accounting for more than 1 million deaths, even a small uptick in the spread or severity of malaria could be devastating...
...syndrome" was coined in 1976 to describe survivors' injuries (often a bloody nose and chest or lung trauma). "We have on record cats surviving after falling from 32 stories," says James Richards, director of Cornell University's Feline Health Center. How? A cat instinctively rights itself in midair, then spread-eagles to maximize drag and diffuse the landing impact over its whole body. But, kids, don't try that at home--it's a feline thing. "Cats," Richards says, "are special little guys...
...obviously aren’t going to be able to build a whole bunch of houses in a short week,” said Kaartiga Sivanesan ’06, a co-leader of the trip. “We can benefit from this experience and help spread knowledge about what is going on there...