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Still, pawnshops have not been unscathed in the recession. With Americans cutting back on spending, many are requesting smaller loans, and others are spending less money buying items from pawnshops. This is expected to turn around as the economy starts to recover...
...would Carnival - which not so long ago drew the wrath of the Southern Baptist Convention for sponsoring gay cruises - suddenly back away from cougar-and-cub cruises? The Miami-based cruise company, one of the world's largest, concedes that the group's 300 or so cruisers, whose wildest event was your typical cruise-ship hot-tub party, weren't particularly loud partyers or a disturbance to other passengers. But Carnival wouldn't discuss the new ban, simply sending an e-mail statement that the line had "made the decision not to allow any future groups to be booked...
...join "patent pools" for their more expensive second- and third-generation antiretroviral drugs. In such an arrangement, an umbrella organization like UNITAID manages a pool of patents that allows generic producers to make second- and third-generation drugs at an affordable price for developing countries. The UNITAID board, backed by Britain, France, Brazil, Norway and Chile, has just agreed to set up a patent pool for AIDS drugs, but the success of the venture depends on the cooperation of pharmaceutical companies. (Read "Is Obama Scaling Back Bush's AIDS Initiative...
...Separating the factors that contribute to climate change from the things that help reverse it is not always easy because sometimes they're one and the same. Trees sop up CO2, for example, but when they die and decay they release it back into the air. Wetlands and rice paddies serve a similarly dual role for both CO2 and methane, acting as sources and sinks simultaneously. The challenge has been trying to tease out how those two functions balance out, but a new paper in the Jan. 14 issue of Science has provided some hard numbers. Using satellite data, investigators...
...further warm the atmosphere, releasing more methane and continuing in a dangerous feedback cycle. But if we're going to prevent that from happening, we're going to have to find a way other than reducing methane emissions from wetlands. Global food requirements mean that we can't cut back seriously on rice paddy cultivation, and wetlands are far too important to the environment as groundwater filters and buffers against coastal floods. "I just don't see any way to control methane emissions from wetlands," says Palmer. Instead, we'll need to focus on methane emissions from man-made sources...