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Comments by JP Morgan got to the heart of the issue of why the latest figure is not a bottom. According to MarketWatch the firm said in a note, "The government's rapid easing of credit and rollout of infrastructure projects has bolstered FAI, helping offset decreased investment by export manufacturers and property developers." The US faces the same problem with its stimulus package. If it does not catch hold quickly unemployment, falling housing prices, and lack of access to credit will overwhelm the money being pushed into the economy by the Administration. (See pictures of China's electronic waste...
Heat waves, droughts and mass extinctions are all potential threats from climate change. But the scariest risk has always been that of rapid sea-level rise caused by the collapse of the massive ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. There is enough water locked on Greenland alone to raise global sea levels by 23 ft. (7 m) if it melted, which would swamp coastal cities like London and Shanghai and all but wipe away small island states like the Maldives and Tuvalu. We can likely adapt, expensively, to higher temperatures and changing precipitation patterns, but it's difficult to imagine...
...While the geologic record shows the earth has experienced rapid sea-level rise in the past, during the sharp warm-ups that follow the end of ice ages, those big melts have occurred when the world had much less ice than it does now. Scientists are unsure of how quickly rising temperatures from global warming could destabilize and melt our existing sheets - the working assumption has been that such major melting and subsequent sea-level rise would take centuries, if not longer, even in a warmer world. (See TIME's special report on the environment...
...ease of working in oil also invited painters to experiment with rapid, summary brushwork, often to produce passages of sketchy, indeterminate form. This was the technique that Tintoretto above all made his own. Thirty years younger than Titian, the son of a dyer - hence the name - Tintoretto was the only one of the Big Three born in Venice. He very briefly apprenticed with Titian but was driven out of the workshop, according to some sources, because Titian was jealous of Tintoretto's evident gifts. For whatever reason there was bad blood between them ever after, and there ensued many instances...
Infants who see rapid growth in the first six months of life may be at a significantly higher risk for obesity later on, according to a Harvard study published in the April issue of Pediatrics. These results imply that obesity can be rooted in the very early stages of life, according to Elsie M. Taveras, the study’s lead investigator and an assistant professor at the Medical School. “Some think, ‘oh, it’s just baby fat, it’s cute, it’ll go away...