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Even more devastating is what we've done to the water cycle. So large is human demand for freshwater that many great rivers like the Yellow in China and even the Nile in Egypt sometimes dry up before getting to the sea. When diverted water is returned to waterways, it...
Last year, when a group of journalists and historians offered a list of the 100 biggest news stories of the 20th century, the Beatles' appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show was ranked 58th. Completion of Hoover Dam didn't make the cut. You sort of expect this from celebrity-infatuated...
The antiglobalists prove that you don't have to agree on what you're for to know what you're against. And one thing they're against, it seems, is agreement itself. Too monolithic, too uniform, too global. The protesters prefer debate, diversity. They'd like to teach the world...
A great measure of world poverty today and African poverty in particular is due to the continuing dependence on foreign markets for manufactured goods, which undermines domestic production and dams up domestic skills, apart from piling up unmanageable foreign debts. Gandhi's insistence on self-sufficiency is a basic economic...
The results were epoch making. In both the New World and the Old World, within a mere 5,000 years of the inception of farming, there were dazzling technological advances, including monumental temples, big dams and, above all, a whole new information technology: writing.