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...believed to have ties to the Cali drug cartel, on drug trafficking and money-laundering charges. The indictments capped an international operation in which authorities have so far arrested more than 40 people in the U.S. and abroad and seized some 3,500 kg of cocaine and $10 million of laundered drug money...
...many environmentalists, the most important issue of all is the apparent onset of global warming. To alert the public--and urge reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions--the National Environmental Trust and the Union of Concerned Scientists have raised $11 million to launch history's largest eco-ad campaign...
...Einstein, the obvious choice was Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest living theoretical physicists. His classic work, A Brief History of Time, has sold close to 9 million copies and was made into a PBS series that he narrated through his voice synthesizer (he has ALS, known as Lou Gehrig's disease). He's best known for devising theories of the Big Bang and black holes based on Einstein's work. We e-mailed Hawking at his Cambridge lab earlier this year to convince him of the importance of explaining Einstein at the end of his century...
World Population 300 million...
World Population 396 million...