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...Agriculture and Construction: Blame Mother Nature, not the economy, for delayed harvests in the Richmond, Chicago and Minneapolis Districts, all of which experienced unusually wet weather. Corn farmers in the Midwest are still feeling the aftershock of a Nov. 1 bankruptcy in South Dakota (one of the nation's largest ethanol producrs). A global drop in cotton demand hurt the region's cotton farmers, who saw both a decline in prices and one of the smallest harvests in 25 years. Homebuilders in the Sixth District, which includes Alabama, Florida and Georgia, noted historically high inventory numbers, despite Florida's modest...
...wanted. From Linden, N.J., to Lorain, Ohio, to Long Beach, Calif., to be an autoworker was to have it made; to be an auto executive was to have made it. Detroit, says John Plant, the thoughtful CEO of partsmaker TRW, was about more than just industry: "It's the largest experiment of social re-engineering that any country has ever undertaken...
...increasing disaffection of India's Muslims because of what historian Ramachandra Guha calls "the failures of the Indian state." The country's 138 million Muslims, who comprise 13.4% of the population, are poorer and less educated than the rest of India and vastly underrepresented in both India's largest employer, the state railway system, and its élite civil service...
...release low levels of carbon dioxide, nitric oxide and sulfur, and some people worry that drilling holes deep into the earth destabilizes the land around it. This summer, police arrested a group of environmental activists who had chained themselves to machinery at a drill site near the nation's largest power station outside Reykjavik to protest the plans for a new aluminum factory. Iceland's government has responded to such criticisms by trying to diversify and attract companies like Microsoft, Cisco and Yahoo!, all of which have discussed building massive server farms on the island...
...sense of how technological progress is translating into environmental gains, take a trip to Lafarge's research campus, just outside the French city of Lyons. The world's largest cement company, Lafarge has set itself a goal: by 2010, it will cut its net CO2 emissions for every ton of cement it produces to 20% below the 1990 level. But it is also steaming ahead with research into smarter, stronger and less polluting products, including ultra-high-performance concrete. Research director Casanova traces the path of innovation back to the 1980s, when the first big gains were made in increasing...