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That means climate change isn't a problem for tomorrow; the effects are happening now. Already precipitation patterns seem to be changing, making some drier areas - like the arid American southwest - even drier, and rainy regions even wetter. (Which can be 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...
Students fortunate enough to be selected for the “Experiment” program traveled to Poland or the Soviet Union and mingled with students in that country, staying in Warsaw or Krakow in Poland or moving around from region to region in the USSR...
...Hornig was in the crowd. After the talk, she said, she finally overcame her hesitations about teaching and applied to Teach For America (TFA), which places college graduates in two-year teaching positions in high-need school districts. (She will be teaching high school French in the Mississippi Delta region next year...
...trip last month to China with co-host Robert Siegel, Block visited Chengdu and witnessed the earthquake that rocked the region, causing thousands of casualties and making international headlines. Block, who had been preparing to interview a Protestant minister when the quake started, was able to file a story narrated from the midst of the disaster...
...Dujiangyan are unlikely to prevail. Sophie Richardson, a Human Rights Watch lawyer specializing in legal reform in China, says that the government has refused to renew the licenses of two prominent civil rights lawyers who offered to represent Tibetans in the wake of the violence in the Tibet Autonomous Region in March. "They don't allow politically sensitive cases to get anywhere," Richardson says. "I'd be very surprised if this turns out to be different." Liu Li says she just wants to know why her daughter's school turned into a death trap. She, like the other parents holding...