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...animal epidemiologists had based all their Ebola assumptions on mountain gorillas - the kind studied by Dian Fossey - and not on Western gorillas, which were actually dying. The mountain variety subsists mostly on leaves, which are available all over the forest. Western gorillas, by contrast, live mostly on fruit, a scarcer resource that draws different groups of gorillas and chimpanzees to the same trees at different times of day. "They defecate and urinate in and around the trees," says Walsh, leaving infected body fluids to sicken the next group. Gorillas also examine the bodies of dead apes they come upon, perhaps...
China is just part of the global explosion of demand for water. In absolute terms water isn't any scarcer. The cycle of precipitation and evaporation may be undergoing changes, some of them disturbing-- like the melting of the ice caps and the prospect of significantly higher sea levels. But in per capita terms, water has become scarce. While world population has doubled in the past 50 years, water consumption has tripled. More efficient appliances and toilets have helped push down per capita consumption in the developed world--from 200 L a day 25 years ago to 135 today...
...Maliki's inaction against Sadr and his forces is only one of a long list of things he failed to do as he sat in the Green Zone. As violence worsened, electricity grew scarcer. Water supplies remained tight. Schools stayed shut. Oil revenues didn't materialize. With so many in Iraq wanting for so much, Maliki quickly became a sort of un-prime minister as people struggled to see any signs of meaningful accomplishments by his administration...
...supplies of petroleum become scarcer and more costly, the notion of hydrogen-powered cars becomes more appealing. Hydrogen provides a tremendous boom for its bang: burning hydrogen releases more energy per pound of fuel than any other material on earth. Spurred by the key invention of the fuel cell, which allows for a controlled consumption instead of a rocket-launching burn, automobile manufacturers have developed concepts for hydrogen-powered cars, touting their vehicles as the future of transportation. Last week, for instance, General Motors announced that it will place 100 hydrogen-fueled cars on the road next year, with...
...further 13.9% last year, are expected to grow by 9.8% this year and 8% in 2007. The competition is sharpening for foreign buyers: houses in Croatia and Morocco are cheaper. Spain's good schools, health care and modern infrastructure will keep European snowbirds coming, but foreign buyers are already scarcer. "Until last year we were selling 20 to 25 properties, mostly to British, but now it is down to 18 to 20 a month," says Francisco Toro, director of Mark-Sol real estate agency in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol. "When we get a client now, we must cosset...