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...While the Polynesian influx is enriching junior league, it's also raising tricky issues. It would be hard to find anyone who would dispute that Polynesian kids grow fast. In football, this means they tend to be bigger than their white peers at a stage of life - seven to 17 - when players lack the technical refinements that can neutralize differences in bulk. "The small kid can't help his size, and the bigger kid has done nothing wrong either," the former New South Wales Rugby League development officer Frank Barrett said recently, "but as an administrator it breaks my heart...
...Middle East lies in transforming rural economies. Right now the Israeli and Jordanian governments provide precious water at subsidized prices to their agricultural industries. Farming consumes the majority of the water supply but contributes little to national economies. Because they don't pay full price for their resources, farmers grow water-hungry crops such as garden vegetables, fruits and flowers, most of which are shipped to Europe. "We are exporting our water," says Bromberg. "Bananas are a tropical fruit. Why are we growing them in the desert...
...European populations which also concludes that, if current demographic trends hold, the natural growth in population in the continent as a whole will end in just seven years time, when the number of deaths overtakes the number of births. Thanks to immigration the E.U.'s population will continue to grow to 520 million by 2035 before falling back to 506 million by 2060. (The U.S. population, according to another recent study, will increase over the same period from about 300 million today to 468 million in 2060, most of that increase coming as a result of immigration...
That is particularly true, Rendell says, in his own state, which will be crucial to Obama's hopes in the fall. Not only did Biden grow up in working-class Scranton, Rendell says, but as a Delaware candidate, he has been running political advertisements in the Philadelphia media market for decades. "Joe's as well-known as anybody in Southeastern Pennsylvania - with the possible exception of me," Rendell laughs...
Other bones can provide additional clues. Elbow bones tend to fuse in a chronological order, so scans revealing how far along this process has come could provide more information about age. The skull can also be helpful. Babies are born with an unfused cranium and, as children grow up, a series of sutures come together to seal the gap. In some, however, certain sutures remain open through adulthood, making this an important but hardly conclusive test...