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...Lebanon - which creates a looming local problem. With cannabis having a shelf life of about two years, most dealers plan to sell their products in the domestic market. Recreational drug use is on the rise in Lebanon. "The problem is that drugs are readily available and relatively cheap," says Brigitte Khoury, a clinical psychologist and professor at the American University of Beirut. A problem that will only worsen if the Bekaa farmers return to their old ways...
...disrupted the Harvard offense and allowed the Bears to get their defenders back behind the ball. “That is their style of play,” Kerr said. “Brown is very aggressive, and it is up to the referee to stop some of the cheap fouls.” IVY IMPLICATIONS Since there are no playoffs in the Ivy League, the championship is awarded to the team with the best record at the end of the regular season schedule. To win the title last year, the Crimson went undefeated against Ivy foes. If Harvard...
...Moves like the latter one could wind up stoking the fires of global inflation. After all, it was China's cheap laborers who turned the country into the world's factory. By one estimate, China's manufacturing unit labor cost was just 4% of that of the U.S. in 2005. Now, as the mainland economy powers ahead - GDP growth jumped by 11.9% in the second quarter - real wages of urban workers have been soaring at double-digit rates, rising 18% in the first half of this year alone, according to the government. Add in higher raw-materials prices, and manufacturers...
...just the residents of Uong Bi who are caught in this dilemma. Throughout Vietnam - indeed, in most of the developing world - demand for cheap electricity is quickly rising. But as countries turn to abundant coal as the energy source of choice, many worry an environmental catastrophe is in the making. As the rest of the world struggles for solutions to global warming, Vietnam has built eight new coal-fired power plants in the past five years and plans to open at least a dozen more by 2012. Last year, Vietnam got only 19% of its power from coal, relying mostly...
...says William Schutt, Matcor's president. But even more significant, he says, is the country's aging infrastructure--many pipelines were installed with more primitive cathodic protection a half-century ago. These older pipelines need to be checked for corrosion on a regular basis. And compliance doesn't come cheap. Schutt says installing cathodic protection on a new pipeline with a fresh protective outer coating may require an anode installation every 20 miles, at a cost of about $1,000 a mile. However, an older pipeline whose coating has worn away might require a more drastic approach--a continuous anode...