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Different pollutants work differently. Some, such as PCBs, are subtle. A female striped bass produces 6 million eggs in a lifetime. If some die from PCBs, it won't be noticed. But humans are also affected when they eat fish contaminated by PCBs; the chemicals can cause cancer and disrupt the functioning of hormones in the body. Other forms of pollution, like nitrate and phosphate runoff from farms, kill the ecosystem by starving fish. These nutrient pollutants are found in fertilizer and in sewage, and they cause excessive growth of aquatic plants when they hit the water. Algae, during their...
...officers' coup deposed Farouk in 1952, but exile did not disrupt his opulent gluttonies. One morning in Capri, as Farouk consumed a breakfast that included 10 eggs, he told a group of newsmen, "You will smile at this, but any man who has considerably less than he has been accustomed to feels he is a poor man." A monstrous appetite proclaims a needy heart. Farouk died at 45, when his heart surrendered after a midnight supper and a cigar...
...covert action plan has its exotic aspects. Agency computer hackers will try to disrupt Milosevic's private financial transactions and electronically drain his overseas bank accounts. (Intelligence officials suspect he has money socked away in Switzerland, Cyprus, Greece, Russia and China.) The CIA also hopes to funnel cash secretly to opposition groups inside Yugoslavia as well as recruit dissidents within the Belgrade government and the Yugoslav military. Last month roads in four Serbian towns and villages were blocked by young reservists protesting the army's failure to pay them for two months...
What goes down must go up. That seemingly inexorable law of economics is now pulling many Asian countries out of the slump that only two years ago threatened to disrupt the entire global economy. Throughout the region stock markets are on the rebound and currencies are on the rise, leading to renewed confidence that the worst is over and business will pick up further. But it may be too early to declare victory. "What is really happening," says TIME business senior editor Bill Saporito, "is that the Asian economies are coming off the bottom. Even when you do nothing...
...sounds of traffic disrupt your nature-loving in the Square, you still have options...