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With its own supplies evaporating, Mexico City relies on the Cutzamala system, a network of reservoirs and treatment plants that pump in water from hundreds of miles around. However, this year Cutzamala itself is running dry amid low levels of rainfall in the area. Its main basin is only 47% full, compared to an annual average of 70% for early April. "This could be caused by climate change and deforestation. These are difficult factors to understand and predict," says Felipe Arreguin, under director of the National Water Commission. "We had to have the stoppages now to make sure that some...
...experiencing major changes,” said Robinson of the need for the modifications. “Search engines like Google Book Search and Google Scholar were gaining attention, and we felt that our online catalogue was looking antiquated.” The new system takes advantage of social-networking Web site features, such as options to tag items and write reviews, in an attempt to make the HOLLIS network more user-friendly, Robinson said. “In Hollis Classic, you had to explore more to get what you were looking for. Now, the expanded search is right...
...only I'd listened to CNBC, I'd have $1 million today--provided I had started with $100 million.' JON STEWART, Daily Show host, lampooning the business network through a video montage of bad stock-market predictions made by CNBC analysts...
...Almost every stock is down! Any stock you recommended is bad. You know, Warren Buffett, I could run tapes from him--he would look like a complete fool.' JIM CRAMER, host of CNBC's Mad Money, defending the network and saying the CNBC clips were taken out of context...
...extent that they no long have a place of their own to live and cannot afford one. It is a form of displacement that has not been seen in America since The Depression and one which replaces the government's assistance for the individual back with the social network of the community, whether that is the community of the family or some other close knit network...