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...walked, I wondered, How long had it been since a Blackfeet, a Crow and a Comanche had walked this valley together and prayed together and had food?" Too long, no doubt--peace always takes too long. The question is, When will Boggess and other Westerners warring over ever scarcer resources finally hear the drum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conflict Resolution: Crossing The Divide | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...Almost 40% of Turks ages 20 to 29 have no vocational qualification, compared to a mere 8% of their German peers. With unskilled jobs becoming ever scarcer, unemployment among those untrained Turkish youths is more than twice the national average of 9.6%. This leads to growing frustration among the youngsters and makes many of them susceptible to political and religious extremism. In recent years, they have boosted the popularity of both fundamentalist Islamic organizations like Milli Görüs - New World Perspective - and nationalist Turkish associations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Losers in the Language Gap | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...like much, but consider that it took only a 5?C shift to end the last ice age. Even at the low end, the changes could be problematic enough, with storms becoming more frequent and intense, droughts more pronounced, coastal areas ever more severely eroded by rising seas and rainfall scarcer on agricultural land. But if the rise is significantly larger, the result could be disastrous. With seas rising as much as 88 cm, enormous areas of densely populated land - coastal Florida, much of Louisiana, the Nile Delta, the Maldives, Bangladesh - would become uninhabitable. Entire climatic zones might shift dramatically. Agriculture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Climate of Despair | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...much, but consider that it took only a 9[degrees]F shift to end the last ice age. Even at the low end, the changes could be problematic enough, with storms getting more frequent and intense, droughts more pronounced, coastal areas ever more severely eroded by rising seas, rainfall scarcer on agricultural land and ecosystems thrown out of balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Warming: Life In The Greenhouse | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...like much, but consider that it took only a 5?C shift to end the last ice age. Even at the low end, the changes could be problematic enough, with storms getting more frequent and intense, droughts more pronounced, coastal areas ever more severely eroded by rising seas, rainfall scarcer on agricultural land and ecosystems thrown out of balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling the Heat | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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