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...leads to changes in weather patterns, including more intense precipitation in some areas, more severe droughts in others (and sometimes, as in the case of the American Southeast, a little of both). And that may well be what's happening at Kilimanjaro. While strongly disputing Thompson's explanation, Georg Kaser of the Institut für Geographie in Innsbruck, Austria, writes that "we are confident that global warming is the ultimate driver of glacier shrinkage on Kilimanjaro due to the strong relation between Indian Ocean dynamics and East African precipitation...
Equally important is the need to boost the efficiency of lagging Russian industry through the acquisition of foreign technology. "As they try to rebuild their economy with even less money than before," notes Michael Kaser, the director of Oxford's Institute of Russian and Eastern European Studies, "it is more important to get free information instead of having to pay for it." Russia is targeting Western weapons systems, for example, in order to upgrade its surplus arms, which can then be sold abroad to earn desperately needed hard currency...
...regain economic momentum, says Oxford University Economist Michael Kaser, the Soviets will have to shift the planning emphasis from more factories and more workers to more efficient factories and more productivity per worker. Decentralizing the economy so that managers need not clear so many decisions with the sluggish Moscow bureaucracy will also be necessary. For the leaders of the rigid Soviet system, that kind of drastic reform will not be easy...
...MARGARET KASER Beaumont, Texas...
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