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...vast majority of Americans travel by either car or airplane, depending on the distance of their journey. This has contributed to our debilitating dependence on foreign oil and has made our transportation system lag behind others in the developed world, as countries like South Korea, France, Taiwan, and Spain have invested heavily in relatively efficient, fast, and safe high-speed trains that connect major metropolitan areas. Even China, the world’s largest developing economy, is making strides in this area—one can now take a high-speed bullet train from Pudong airport to downtown Shanghai...
...chain reaction that is one more piece of evidence of global warming's devastating impact. Coupled with other climate change phenomena, like the boom in jellyfish off the coast of Spain and the appearance of a new, ecosystem-upsetting species of shrimp near Tunisia, Gorgonia mortality looks to be remaking the sea into a very different place...
...carry the same swagger into this weekend's Americas summit in Port of Spain, Trinidad? At first glance, his decade-old Bolivarian Revolution (named for South America's 19th century independence hero, Simón Bolívar) seems as potent as it was four years ago. Chávez, still Venezuela's most popular political figure, just won a referendum that will let him run for re-election as long as he wants. His small but radical leftist bloc of Latin American nations (including Bolivia and Nicaragua) has helped blunt U.S. hegemony and ushered non-hemispheric allies like Russia...
...contrast to the summit in Mar del Plata, Chávez isn't expected to hold the regional reins in Port of Spain or breathe the same anti-U.S. fire. More moderate leftists like Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are regarded as Latin America's standard bearers today. Even if the global economic crisis has borne out Chávez's condemnation of capitalism, it has also sent oil prices plummeting - and his populist largesse along with them. At the same time, some supporters worry that as Chávez accumulates more power at home...
...French rebellion, including the occupation of airport runways by striking Air France workers to stop flights for days, and the paralysis of French highways by protesting truck drivers. Similar dismay resounded abroad at images of French farmers, angered by the import of cheaper goods, capturing trucks from the U.K., Spain, and other European Union countries and dumping or burning their cargo - which often included live animals...