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After all, it is not the global temperature change itself that matters but the repercussions of that change. These include the raising of sea level due to the expansion of warmer water, more frequent large tropical storms like Hurricane Gilbert, movement of agriculturally productive areas from the tropics to the...

Author: By Lawrence Lee, | Title: How Cloudy a Forecast? | 1/19/1990 | See Source »

To the Germans, Latvians, Poles and Czechs,

Author: By B. K. Wenceslaus, | Title: Crimson Beneficence | 12/19/1989 | See Source »

Since the dawn of the Green movement, critics have argued that environmentalists exaggerate the dangers that humans pose to planet earth and understate the resilience of nature. Historically, the naysayers have had a key influence on policy: they weakened the original Clean Air and Clean Water acts, and Reagan officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Endangered Earth Update Now Wait Just a Minute | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Their findings were hardly encouraging. The Ursus tractor plant outside Warsaw, which once supplied farm equipment for the entire East bloc, was operating at only a fraction of its capacity. At the OMIG electronics factory, the building was crumbling and the technology 25 years old. "The Poles are doing very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Deals in Poland | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

But the suddenness of Poland's great leap may create new problems, even as it seeks to solve old ones. The country lacks economic institutions that took centuries to develop in the West: it has no stock exchange, no commercial banks, little experience in the rough-and-tumble of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Deals in Poland | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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