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Germany's leaders, who are in the midst of a heated election campaign, were quick to exploit the disaster for political ends. Environment Minister Jurgen Trittin patted himself on the back for a progressive emissions policy while blaming global warming for the wacky weather--a connection that is debatable when it comes down to any specific calamity. What experts do agree on is that industrial farming, deforestation and the loss of meadows have reduced the ground's ability to absorb water, which probably contributed to the severity of the floods...
...human society itself. That relationship changed fundamentally, a little more than two centuries ago, with the Industrial Revolution. Using the new technology of the steam engine in the early 19th century, and the internal combustion engine in the century just ended, society found itself able to exploit on a massive scale the energy locked in such fossil fuels as coal, oil and gas. At the same time, dramatic gains in agricultural productivity made possible by mechanized farming, fertilizers and more efficient water use pushed people from farms into factories and cities. The net result was a revolution in living standards...
...Soccer is played on a huge field often made small by the speed of Defenders - get the ball and the field suddenly shrinks. Great players can exploit those small spaces, creating room for themselves with their physical skills and their intuition. They can think a few moves ahead of other players. A few minutes on the field with Milbrett and it's clear that she has that gift. At one moment she makes a completely unexpected turn away from teammates, away from help ("Tiff, I'm open!"). Yet with everyone heading in the direction where the ball ought...
...able to get before. Dijon, previously accessible only by road or train, got its Buzz link in March; the northern French city estimates that British visitors will bring in at least 35 million this year. Officials, noting that already around 20% of British passengers are business travelers, plan to exploit that traffic by promoting the city as a location for conferences and conventions. They calculate that for British companies a three-day conference in Dijon, including air fares and hotels, would be cheaper than meeting in London. Hoping to make Dijon the gateway to the rest of Burgundy, airport director...
...tire of endless changes to the "jihadi" URLs, and also to eliminate any possibility that such sites could be used by al-Qaeda members to communicate with each other via secret signals or hidden encrypted files. A U.S. counter-terrorism official confirms that Washington has an active campaign to exploit al-Qaeda's use of the Internet, and that the CIA monitors al-Qaeda web sites and those who use them. But it's far from clear that clumsy disruption would more useful to Washington than diligent monitoring. Moreover, the jury is still out among intelligence officials over just...