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...connection between drought and wildfires is strong, says Thomas Swetnam, head of the University of Arizona's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. And the most dangerous fires, he says, occur when droughts follow years that are unusually wet. That's because generous rains encourage trees, shrubs and grasses to grow, providing the fuel that stokes forest fires. This pattern of wet preceding dry, Swetnam thinks, helped feed the intense blazes that raged through the Southwest shortly after 1850, taking out huge stands of conifers. So, if a new El Nino materializes later this year, as some experts expect...
...former champ has made ends meet in recent years by hosting a TV game show, opening a BBQ restaurant and recording a hit album with two fellow fighters called Three Boxers Become Singers. Now, however, the 31-year-old is making his comeback after two years out of the ring...
...gloomy December morning in Helsinki in 1997 when 26-year-old Vesku Paananen woke up with a hangover after a night of Koskenkorva vodka and beer. Paananen, a chief technology officer with new-media company Yomi Group, was jolted out of bed by the annoying ring tone of his Nokia 6110 mobile phone. "I didn't want to hear 'de de de de deeeee' ever again," Paananen recalls. "I wanted to hear Van Halen's Jump, and I was willing to pay for it." The technology was there to program mobile phones to play pop tunes rather than electronic bleeps...
...buying a ring tone to enjoy Christina Aguilera. You're buying it to tell everyone else...
...approximate relationship to the melodies on which they're based. But like the craze for plastic mobile-phone covers, ring tones are more about making a personal fashion statement. "You're not buying a ring tone to enjoy Christina Aguilera," says Ovum analyst Dario Betti. "You're buying it to tell everyone else who you are." And for that assertion of identity, high-use mobile-phone customers (read: teenagers) are willing to pay dearly. British consumers pay the most - between $2.70 and $6.40 for a ring tone, while it costs just $1.45 to get the whole song online. Though charges...