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Such changes to farm management aren't likely to be cheap or easy to implement. But, as Diaz's study suggests, the consequences of inaction might prove infinitely more expensive. "The oceans are vast and they cover most of the Earth's surface," notes Howarth. "But what people mostly care about in the oceans is largely in these coastal areas. That's where the most productive fisheries are, and where people recreate. And that's where people are overfishing, and where dead zones are developing...
...solved by high economic growth alone. There are persistent problems within China's higher-education system that are of mounting concern. As children from the country's expanding middle class come of age, universities are being blitzed with new students. In fields such as engineering and economics, there simply aren't enough high-caliber teachers to go around. "China lacks the educational infrastructure to keep pace with the frantic demand for education," says Tang Min, chief China economist at the Asian Development Bank. A human-resources executive who helped produce a report on the subject for the American Chamber...
...decent job opportunities. Employers say it's too early to say whether the program has been effective. He Lingyan, who runs a fast-growing industrial pipe - manufacturing company in Zhejiang province, says that when he needs engineers, "I look for people who have already worked. A lot of colleges aren't producing kids with the skills we need. There needs to be better communication between companies and educational institutions, and it will take time to fix this problem...
...wonders of Olympic basketball. Except these guys aren't playing hoops. They're going for gold in team handball, a popular game throughout Europe and, to a lesser extent, American gym classes. But handball is the only sport in which the Americans don't have a single Olympian. (Rhythmic gymnastics - you know, the one with the ribbons and balls - also has no Yank participant. But since it's an event within gymnastics, it doesn't count as its own Olympic sport...
Qalibaf's true colors aren't clear. Relatively young, at 46, for Iranian politics, he is neither a turbaned mullah nor a bearded revolutionary but a manager who seems more interested in paving potholed streets than in parroting empty slogans. The son of a grocer in the northeastern city of Mashhad, Qalibaf was a teenage activist during the 1979 Islamic revolution. A few years later he became one of Iran's youngest military commanders, playing a crucial role in the 1982 liberation of the city of Khorramshahr from Saddam Hussein's invading army, and he subsequently served as Iran...