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Evidence that greenhouse warming has already started is at best tenuous. Even though some scientists believe the concentration of CO2 in the air has shot up 25% since the early 1800s, the average global temperature has risen by no more than 0.5 degrees C (1.1 degrees F), and even that measurement is suspect. Moreover, the rise has been uneven. From about 1940 to 1970, a cooling period inspired some forecasters to predict a return of the ice ages...
Nevada officials hope to zap the marauding insects, known as Mormon crickets because of a severe infestation near Salt Lake City in the 1800s, before they march. Aerial spraying and a toxic bait will be used. But no one is confident of turning back the invasion. Concedes Robert Gronowski, a director of Nevada's anti-cricket strategy: "You can't kill them...
Since the 1790s, the U.S. has imposed severe restrictions on immigrants, culminating in the 1920s in the so-called Exclusion Laws targeted largely against Asians. These restrictions were not lifted completely until the mid-1960s. Asians began settling America in the early 1800s and some have lived in the U.S. for several generations...
...Vitus Bering, Alaska was seen as a land to be exploited for all it was worth. At first the lure was furs, and then whaling, timber and fishing. When the U.S. bought the territory from Russia in 1867 for $7 million, little changed. The gold rushes of the late 1800s brought hordes of prospectors, beginning a boom-and-bust cycle that continues to this day. Says Celia Hunter, a lodge keeper who came to the territory 42 years ago: "Alaskans have always looked for the big bang that would solve all their problems." Some development schemes were downright absurd...
...many of the elements of Nazi classicism if not its overweening vulgarity. The taste for earnest, portentous and sentimental allegory, which now and then muddies the work of even the best German artists in the postwar years -- Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer -- is well and truly installed by the early 1800s in the elaborate metaphorical drawings and prints of Runge. His paeans to innocence, with their flying babies and virgins and lilies, waver close to visionary kitsch. And of course the attitudes to nature and society that permeate German expressionism were not invented in the 20th century: they are Romanticism topped...