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...that there are always some seeds left over to sprout. The strategy, called masting, worked for millions of years. Now, however, the forests in Borneo have been so reduced that humans and animals can consume all the dipterocarp fruit, with the result that no new dipterocarp trees are taking root in the areas studied by Curran and her colleagues. Since a host of creatures ranging from the orangutan to the boar are dependent on the dipterocarps, the trees' disappearance may ultimately doom Indonesia's rain-forest ecosystem. PAGE scientist Nigel Sizer of the World Resources Institute notes that similar problems...
Substance abuse, prevalent in the homeless community, is one of the root causes of violence across the board--not just in the homeless population...
Melchiono says he believes that the program's effort to address more than just physical needs is at the root of its success...
...with 30,000 troops, allows the radical Iranian-inspired Hezbollah to operate against Israel, and remains on the State Department's list of terrorist-sponsoring states. A Syrian-Israeli agreement under these circumstances will be more like an absence of war. For a tangible, long-term peace to take root, the Assad regime has to go. The day Israeli goods, embassies and vacationers flood Damascus is the day that the Assad regime, which has for so long based its legitimacy largely on creating an external Israeli threat, takes its first step towards disintegration...
...wealth effect, simply, is the penchant to spend more as net worth climbs. You probably don't lie awake at night fretting about the problems that increasing your wealth may bring, but it's an issue in Washington because spending is the root of inflation. And inflation is bad. One way to attack it, therefore, is to attack net worth...