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There are a few things in this world that warrant jeopardizing lucrative trade deals and access to a market of 1.2 billion people. Flagrant, frequent, unrepentant human rights violations are foremost among those reasons. Initiating periodic United Nations censures against China’s communist government is not enough. The U.S. must take a tougher stance on China and human rights. China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization (WTO) should be conditional on a tangible improvement in the respect of human and minority rights. A U.N. monitoring team must also be allowed into Xinjiang and Tibet...
...legendary snows of Kilimanjaro, are disappearing from mountaintops around the globe. Coral reefs are dying off as the seas get too warm for comfort. Drought is the norm in parts of Asia and Africa. El Niño events, which trigger devastating weather in the eastern Pacific, are more frequent. The Arctic permafrost is starting to melt. Lakes and rivers in colder climates are freezing later and thawing earlier each year. Plants and animals are shifting their ranges poleward and to higher altitudes, and migration patterns for animals as diverse as polar bears and beluga whales are disrupted...
...more than 50% higher than predictions of just half a decade ago. That may not seem like much, but consider that it took only a 5?C shift to end the last ice age. Even at the low end, the changes could be problematic enough, with storms becoming more frequent and intense, droughts more pronounced, coastal areas ever more severely eroded by rising seas and rainfall scarcer on agricultural land. But if the rise is significantly larger, the result could be disastrous. With seas rising as much as 88 cm, enormous areas of densely populated land - coastal Florida, much of Louisiana...
...Public health could suffer. Rising seas would contaminate water supplies with salt. Higher levels of urban ozone, the result of stronger sunlight and warmer temperatures, could worsen respiratory illnesses. More frequent hot spells could lead to a rise in heat-related deaths. Warmer temperatures could widen the range of disease-carrying rodents and bugs, such as mosquitoes and ticks, increasing the incidence of dengue fever, malaria, encephalitis, Lyme disease and other afflictions. Worst of all, this increase in temperatures is happening at a pace that outstrips anything the earth has seen in the past 100 million years. Humans will have...
...Rosenfeld. Today's mania for raising young Einsteins, he observes, might have destroyed the real Einstein - a notorious dreamer who earned poor grades in school but somewhere in his frolics divined the formula for the relationship between matter and energy. Play refreshes and stimulates the mind, it seems. And "frequent breaks may actually make kids more interested in learning," according to Rhonda Clements, a Hofstra University professor of physical education...