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...most vulnerable places on the earth to global warming. Already, sea levels are rising in the Bay of Bengal and pushing salty water inland, lowering the productivity of rice cultivation in the south of the country. Farmers are adapting by switching land over to prawn farming, which tolerates saltier water...
...very conventional tune. A few, like Sahl and Dick Gregory, specialized in political satire; a few others, like Redd Foxx and Belle Barth, did "blue" material, at least by 50s standards. (Today it would barely be aqua.) Lenny's satire was more ferocious than Sahl's, his language saltier and more freewheeling than Foxx's. This combination of topic and tone, and the fact that nobody else was out there with him, meant that Lenny had gigantic areas of social and sexual behavior (and misbehavior) all to himself. In an alternate universe, some comedian might be granted a monopoly...
Cheap junk food has never been hard to find - it overflows in supermarkets, corner stores and even gas stations. But Americans' burgeoning interest in healthier eating has prompted a surge in the availability of healthier foods, which have long battled for supermarket shelf space with saltier, sweeter alternatives. Fruits and veggies are being packaged in new forms, without spoiling their nutritional value. Last year manufacturers introduced more than 400 whole-grain products, according to ProductScan research, and hundreds more are coming out this year. Some are just slightly less junkier version of sugar-loaded snacks, but others are worth trying...
...Stream. The current, dubbed the Blue God by author William MacLeisch, warms much of Europe and eastern North America by bringing enormous amounts of tropical water northward as part of the "great ocean conveyor" that distributes heat around the world. As this warm water moves north, evaporation makes it saltier and heavier. By the time the stream has reached the far northern waters between Norway and Greenland it has given up most of its heat, and this salty, heavy water plunges into the abyss, pulling more water behind...
...biology textbooks say it shouldn't exist. Microorganisms are thriving in thermal springs in Yellowstone National Park and in pristine veins of water two miles underground in South Africa. They're living in solid rock at the bottom of deep mines. They're growing in brine pools five times saltier than the ocean, in tiny pockets of liquid embedded in sea ice and in places with toxic levels of heavy metals, acids and even radiation...