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...tensions have dealt a blow to Merkel's approval ratings. According to a survey by the polling institute Infratest Dimap on Jan. 7, 59% of Germans approve of the way Merkel is doing her job, compared with 70% in December. The Chancellor will have to find a way to rekindle the love that swept her back into power last year, or she could be looking at a very long, torturous...
Kyle Story was pressing through the sandy soil of an orange grove on the evening of Jan. 10, one of the coldest nights in Florida in years, and inside the cab of his four-wheel-drive Chevy pickup truck it was toasty. But the gauge on the rearview mirror warned Story that the outside temperature had dropped to 33°F (0.5°C), just one degree above freezing - and it was only 8:30 p.m. That meant he was in a race to start dozens of irrigation pumps, whose warm water would protect his crop both by insulating...
...billion stake in agriculture, second only to tourism. At this make-or-break stage in the state's growing season, there are $300 million worth of crops in the ground, on the trees or in the ponds. (Florida is also the second largest supplier of tropical fish.) On Jan. 10, the Storys, who own one of the largest grower and grove caretaker companies in the county, had $500,000 in potential citrus loss on the line: the fruit's juice sacs start to rupture if they are exposed to freezing temperature for too long, and they become slush-filled orbs...
...night when nothing more can be done. The company's 80-plus irrigation pumps, with miles of hoses, deliver water through micro-jets from the time the temperature hits 32°F (0°C) until it returns to above freezing in the morning. By 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 10, there was nothing left but hope and luck, and tall, soft-spoken Kyle headed home for a few hours of shut-eye - sleep disturbed by the knowledge that the family had already incurred 1% crop damage. But for the eighth morning in the past 10, he was up before...
...family could remember a cold spell this protracted, not even since the freezes of the 1980s wrought more than a billion dollars in citrus losses. At 5:45 a.m. on Jan. 11, when the temperature read 25°F (-4°C), Kyle yanked an early-season orange from a tree. He sliced the top third and the juice ran freely, making him think they may have squeaked through another night. But with a second cut through the middle, Kyle shook his head. "This is not good," he said, running his knife through slush, as it's called...