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...cold snaps, do not have to wipe out populations the size of small towns. They only do so when the existing infrastructure is already inadequate. The majority of this summer's victims were found dead in homes they occupied alone - or were brought to emergency rooms too dehydrated and weak to be saved. The August vacation period had lowered the staffing levels of rescue squads and hospitals. And well before that, many elderly people had already become cut off from regular human contact. "Heat waves reveal conditions that are always present but difficult to perceive," notes sociologist Eric Klinenberg, author...
Sonnenberg speculated that the prosecutors had requested the lighter sentence in the hope of winning a guilty verdict despite weak evidence...
...problem is not simply caused by weak regulation in North America: the British government has also acknowledged the danger. In December last year the National Institute for Agricultural Botany declared that no GM canola could be grown in England without contaminating the entire British crop, including the fields producing organic or non-GM produce. In addition, the British government asserted that natural canola could not be grown for at least a year on a field where engineered canola had been grown previously due to the contamination from residual genetically engineered canola seeds...
...view the American obesity epidemic is not universal. The poor and the uneducated are the predisposed targets and ultimate victims of greedy corporations who exploit their weak predicament in the name of capitalism. Government should regulate the activities of these corporate predators in order to harmonize nutritional choice irrespective of economic status. Only then will the responsibility rest with the individual. Yervant Aredjian Montreal, Canada...
Their tour of the high school came in the wake of longstanding controversy over the city’s weak record for public education. Low test scores, falling enrollment rates and wide variation in performance have become a black mark on the city’s public education system during an already tumultuous period of administrative turnover...