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...almost as destructive as a drought - last year's record-breaking floods in Britain caused $4 billion worth of damage.) As warmer temperatures creep northward, so do insects and other pests that are adapted to the heat. The results can be harrowing - the population of the tiny mountain pine beetle, which infests pine trees in the Rocky Mountain region, used to be controlled by freezing winters. But as temperatures have warmed over the past decade, the mountain pine beetle's territory has spread, destroying millions of acres of Canadian pines...
...have a refreshing swim, before dinner right beside the beach at the Bathers Pavilion, tel: (61-2) 9969 5050, or the modern Australian Watermark, tel: (61-2) 9968 3433. To finish off the night I'd take a taxi to beachside Manly, take in the surf, sand and tall pine trees, and have a gelato at Gelatissimo, on Manly Wharf, tel: (61-2) 9976 6199. From there, I'd hop on a ferry back to Circular Quay and the city hotel precinct...
...crude per day from tar sands at three mines on the banks of the Athabasca River. About two-thirds of that gets piped to the U.S. Syncrude accounts for about 27% of the 1.3 million bbl. extracted by oil companies every 24 hours from this stark landscape of jack pine, spruce and poplar forests shot through by a bright northern light...
...more frequently the recovery efforts end up like the search for Shu Zehong, a female worker at the Dongfang Turbine Works in the mountainside town of Hanwang. The mining and manufacturing center, which sits beneath mountains covered in pine and bamboo, was ravaged by the quake. At a public square an outdoor clock is frozen at 2:28 p.m., the minute the tremor struck. Nearby a 20-foot tall statue of a rider on a horse was decapitated during the quake, and the rider's head now sits upturned at its base. Many buildings on its main street were toppled...
...size. Aware of these rising concerns with FAS e-mail, Harvard’s IT has been developing solutions but says it is still too early to release any fixed plans for how it can resolve undergraduate complaints. STUCK IN THE WEBWhile undergraduate use of e-mail clients including Pine, Outlook, Mac Mail, and Eudora has dropped over the past year, Harvard IT has been witnessing a rise in student preferences for forwarding e-mails to Gmail.According to Selsby, students favored Gmail’s almost unlimited inbox size, while FAS Webmail only allows a maximum inbox capacity...