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What researchers found was a stretch of a few hundred thousand years during which foraminifera shells were unusually rich in oxygen-18, suggesting the presence of glaciers. Though changes in ocean temperature can also alter the oxygen balance, sea-bottom temperatures don't vary much no matter what's happening up top, yet the bottom-dwelling foraminifera still exhibited an oxygen imbalance, implying that the ice effect was more likely. Nobody can explain how you can have glaciers in a superhot world. But then, nobody can really explain how the world got quite that hot in the first place...
...happy to see that Chinese President Hu Jintao was a runner-up. China has been transformed by Deng Xiaoping's exhortation that "to get rich is glorious," but Hu wants to narrow the gap between rich and poor so every Chinese can share in the wealth of economic growth. Hu has built a good image for China and expanded the nation's global influence. He will eventually encourage the Chinese people to accelerate political reform. Song Xiaowen, Zhongli City, Taiwan...
...churches, chapels and monasteries across Europe are robbed of their most beloved and valuable artworks. From small-time crooks trying to earn drug money to seasoned pros who snatch massive canvases, art thieves are erasing a significant part of the religious heritage of some of the most culturally rich countries. "Our churches are being pillaged," says Captain Dominique Lambert of France's Central Office for the Fight against Traffic in Cultural Goods (OCBC). "They take everything - statues, paintings, chalices, silverwork. When a Virgin Mary is stolen from a church after being there since the Middle Ages, that can't leave...
Italy is divided between the rich north and the poor south, plagued by unemployment and organized crime. The trash is just one symptom of a federal neglect that needs fixing...
...most alarming is that its root causes are maladies that still plague other, less stable African states. The first is poverty. Despite Kenya's overall economic growth, 58% of its people are poor (defined as living on $2 or less a day). U.N. studies show that the gap between rich and poor is wider in Africa than anywhere else in the world. Despite the continent's recent economic growth, the number of its poor grew from 288 million in 1981 to 516 million...