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...banned collective land ownership, declared traditional tribal lands state property available for redistribution and forbade nomadic slash-and-burn farming practices, forcing hill tribes to settle down. Complaints of corruption in doling out the land have been rife here as elsewhere in the country. In the 1990s coffee helped fuel a 12% average growth rate in Dak Lak, encouraging more settlers to flock to the region. Almost all were members of the Kinh majority, which makes up 90% of Vietnam's population. Dak Lak's population has nearly doubled in 10 years, to 1.9 million. In 1975, ethnic minorities made...
...Europeans off the hook." In fact, Europe and the rest of the world now seem determined to ratify a Kyoto agreement; the hope is that the Americans will join later. That will depend on the factor Bush considers paramount: economics. If the global market favors companies that make low-fuel automobiles, effective windmills and solar batteries, then American companies will press their government in a different direction. But how long that will take is even less easily predicted than the fretful process of global warming itself...
...Kosovo have declined to condemn the insurgency, and a radical Kosovo leader last week claimed solidarity with the new group. Moreover, the hit-and-run attacks on police outposts closely resemble K.L.A. tactics during the Kosovo conflict. The guerrillas could be eager to foment a rebellion in order to fuel extremism across the region, or they could simply be hoping to force the government into political concessions...
...loses about 15% of its value the first year on the road and an additional 10% every year following. A set of tires costs $5,000, and a wash-and-wax job runs about $360. On average a bus travels about seven miles on a gallon of diesel fuel. To paraphrase J.P. Morgan on the subject of yachts, if you have to ask which way fuel prices are headed, you can't afford...
...driving global warming. But that treaty has been rejected by the Bush administration as unfair because, initially, it does not require developing countries to cut their emissions. However, many observers believe Bush opposes it because the U.S. is by far the greatest greenhouse-gas polluter, and controlling fossil fuel emissions might injure the economy...