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...Regardless of these preparations, much of Bangladesh will be transformed if current global warming trends continue. As the sea level rises, vast swaths of coastal land will disappear in coming decades - as much as 18% of Bangladesh's current landmass, according to the World Bank. And as the rivers swell with water from melting Himalayan glaciers, land in the center of the country will also disappear. Those effects, combined with more frequent and stronger cyclones, could spark an exodus of climate refugees fleeing for the cities and for other countries...
...would be lost and there would be a massive die-off of sea corals. Sea levels would rise by 28 to 43 cm, and most frightening of all, the report acknowledged the possibility that the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, which would release enough fresh water to swamp coastal cities, could occur over centuries, rather than millennia. "If you add to this the melting of some of the ice bodies on Earth, this gives a picture of the kinds of issues we are likely to face," said Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC's chairman...
Sure, there are signs of overheating in some sectors. The number of cars sold in China doubled last year, to more than 2 million, for example, and the real estate market in some coastal regions is frothy. But the central bank is trying to thwart overspeculation. Fang regrets not buying an apartment in Shanghai when he moved there a year ago; prices have jumped 60% since then. "The room for policy maneuver is very big, and we shouldn't be concerned about overheating," he said...
...called common sense, not collusion. "The fact that one player doesn't get what he wants - that's not even close [to collusion]," says Rick Karcher, a sports law professor at Florida Coastal School...
...went on sale at Nordstrom in April. "We ran out of stock in the first 30 days," boasts Sherif. "And I got phone calls from [potential partners and buyers] after just 20 days of being in business. Can you believe it?" Dee Rodriguez, president of Coastal Products International, the U.S. distributor of ilift, an antiaging device using infrared light, which was originally developed in Italy, also got instant nibbles from "names that you'd definitely recognize," she says, after displaying her product at a trade show. The gadget, which comes with a 30-day supply of a specially formulated serum...