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...Gazprom had also been reselling cheaper gas from Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan at higher prices to Europe. But Turkmenistan has raised its prices to Russia by 30%, and intends to add a further 20% raise in the second quarter of 2008. Uzbekistan has done the same. And Turkmenistan's plans to supply China will also break Gazprom's monopoly, via its control of pipelines, on delivering Central Asian gas exports...
Another vulnerable group: women. Though women still smoke at just one quarter the rate of men, tobacco advertisers are increasingly targeting this largely untapped market. Though parts of Europe have enacted some of the most aggressive anti-tobacco policies in the world, in recent decades the rates of smoking between men and women have begun evening out - even as rates decrease among European men, they are increasing among women. Among adolescents in European Union member nations, girls may now be even more likely to smoke than boys. Globally, Chan said, "the rise of tobacco use among girls and young women...
...reality we consume food—particularly red meat—at bargain prices, if you consider the negative externalities involved in its journey from pasture to plate. Imagine that quarter-pound of brisket you ate last night: a widely quoted recent study in the Animal Science Journal shows that the carbon footprint of that beef is 4.11 kilograms, the amount released in about ten miles of driving in an average American car. What if you and thousands of others at Harvard took just a tenth of a pound more brisket than you managed to eat—you might...
...don’t wake up a cyborg, but every morning I become one for at least a quarter hour...
...well as in Connecticut, Delaware and Utah. Once again, younger and more affluent voters provided the core of his support, along with African Americans, whom he won by an 8-1 margin. He won 70% of the half of Democrats who told pollsters they were looking for change; a quarter of respondents said they favored experience, and nearly all broke for Clinton...