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...generation, from today's 85 million barrels a day to about 116 million barrels a day in 2030. Nearly half that increase in demand will come from just two countries - China and India, which are electrifying hundreds of cities and putting millions of new cars on their roads, most driven by people who once walked, or rode bicycles and buses. By 2030, those two countries will be responsible for two-thirds of the world's carbon gas emissions, which are the primary human activity causing global warming...
...doubt he means it. But to Ab Klink, the Dutch Minister for Health, the ban is about public health and social order. Roughly a hundred tourists a year are driven away in an Amsterdam ambulance after mushroom consumption. The fact that almost all incidents involve foreign tourists led Klink to the conclusion, he says, that "it is absolutely undesirable that citizens of neighboring countries run these health risks." But the ban could end up promoting other mind-blowing compounds, some of which pack more punch - and carry more risks - than magic mushrooms...
...which an individual projects inner feeling and character. As such, fashion is a sensibility with which it is important to stay in tune. However, it seems that increasingly fewer individuals outside of the elite circles dictate or are even truly conscious of their tastes. In the practical, profit-driven implementation of retail and commercialization, fashion is becoming an increasingly supply-side phenomenon that creates its own inevitable demand, driven by the forces of marketing and brand management...
...said that the altercation was a result of Pring-Wilson overreacting to taunts Colono yelled from the backseat of a Chevrolet Celebrity being driven by his cousin’s girlfriend, Giselle Abreu...
Haider contends that Musharraf has proved himself the patron saint of religious fanatics. By limiting the choice in Pakistan to supporting the military or supporting the militants, Musharraf may well have driven millions of Pakistanis into the arms of the terrorists. The spread of anti-Americanism and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism have been fostered by a U.S. policy of supporting Musharraf over the unpredictability of a true democratic process. Rather than forcing Musharraf to seek consensus, and thus enable a representative civilian government that would support him in his campaign against extremism, the U.S.'s tepid response to Musharraf...