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Today, those highways are in pretty bad shape. More than 90% of China's 160 million acres (400 million hectares) of grasslands are classified as "degraded," slowly losing the diverse collection of native plants that normally flourish there and fueling the massive dust storms that blow across China every spring. Nomadic herders have raised camels, goats, cows, and sheep on these grasslands for hundreds of years, but in the middle of the 20th century, China's population boom and demand for more meat sent livestock numbers soaring. By 1990, some regions were literally grazed bare, herders whose animals were dying...
Candidates for the Cambridge City Council debated the ins and outs of development last night, exchanging views on affordable housing, a massive construction project in East Cambridge, and the shape the city should take in a potential “master plan” that would guide its growth in coming years...
Tragedy Given Shape In Berlin
...Dwight Eisenhower warned in 1961 of the "unwarranted influence" of "the military-industrial complex." The Osprey has taken years to design, build, test and bring to the field. All that time meant plenty of money for its prime contractors, Bell Helicopter and the Boeing Co. As the plane took shape and costs increased, some of its missions were shelved or sidelined. And yet, with the U.S. spending almost $500 billion a year on defense - not counting the nearly $200 billion annually for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan - there's plenty of money for marginal or unnecessary programs. Pentagon reform...
...During your presidency, your energy policies were not very popular. Would the country be in better shape if we had adopted the policies you endorsed? -Ronald McGee, Anchorage Yes, of course. When I was elected, we were importing 9 million bbl. of oil per day. Within just a few years, we ?reduced that to 7 million bbl. per day. Now we're back up to 13 million...