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Reasons for Mercury's wild temperature swings are its lack of any appreciable atmosphere and its reflective surface that bounces 90% of the sun's heat back into space...
...national origin for one or more commodities. And since 1980, Florida has mandated the labeling of foreign produce--an effort that takes an estimated two man-hours per store per week to execute. In fact, most produce carries stickers that could include the information. In addition, two food chains, Wild Oats and Whole Foods, already label food by origin...
...Just north of the border with Bangladesh, the hillside village of Cherrapunji offers an even better insight into India's water paradox than the view from Captain Singh's cockpit. The women of Cherrapunji are small and muscular, their cheeks lined with the same parched wrinkles as the wild land of their birth. Their sinewy bodies tell the story of how, six months of the year, they lift empty oilcans on their backs and trek a kilometer to a stream to fetch water. "Still, there isn't enough," says widow Dorjon Nongrun. Once called the "Scotland of the East...
...lake where I not-fished, filling in a 2-kilometer square area with tents, camper vans and drugs the government doesn’t even know exist. Booker’s just the host, not the booker (most people never get to see a pun that good in the wild, and the habitat is fading fast); a production company called Happy People Productions take care of all publicity, booking DJs and bands, equipment, as well as putting together a promotional video, which I have the privilege of viewing...
...above and the sullen Tasmanian winter sky threatens rain or worse. In layers of thermals, waterproof trousers and parkas, gloves sodden from slippery branches, Shaw and other members of the local Aboriginal community have scrambled for an hour through steep rainforest to reach this spot in the island's wild southwest. Here at the base of a rough limestone bluff, half-hidden by the immense arching fronds of tree ferns, a dark cave mouth gapes crookedly, big enough to admit a man almost upright. But Shaw, the head of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Land Council, suddenly feels uneasy - not about...