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...European producers are being put out of business by U.S. imports of so-called B99 biodiesel, or fuel derived 99% from plants. The U.S. government subsidizes such exports to the tune of up to $300 a ton. Yet in some cases, the bulk of the fuel doesn't even stem from U.S. inputs, but is cheaply imported from countries like Indonesia or Malaysia...
...enormous explosion of international financial flows, which has both facilitated criminal behavior, as trillions of dollars slosh around the world, and made it much more difficult to combat crime. Winer and his colleagues identified the development of a coherent global anti-money-laundering strategy as key in trying to stem the shadow economy's swelling river. But it proved an uphill struggle. The sums involved in the liberated capital flows were vast. By mid-1990, the foreign-exchange markets alone reached a volume of trading that exceeded $1 trillion every day - more than 40 times the value of daily global...
Chivian, who shared a Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for his efforts to prevent nuclear war, cited stem cell research and the long-standing debate over evolution as points of contention between scientists and the Christian Right...
...musician to really change things.” Yes, Koh is not your average cello prodigy. On top of maintaining an international career and earning degrees from both Harvard and the New England Conservatory, he is also a pre-med student and a researcher in the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Koh thinks that the tissue images he looks at in his work are “beautiful.” To him, they’re not separate from his art. “When I play, I need to express the artist’s life experiences...
...Begun in 2000, the plan has cost more than $5 billion, making Colombia the fourth largest recipient of U.S. aid, after Iraq, Israel and Egypt. The plan is designed to combat both cocaine production and groups like the FARC that profit from the trade. Although Colombia has failed to stem cocaine production, the cash has at the very least helped rebuild Colombia's military, which in turn has knocked the FARC back on its heels. The rebels have seen their ranks of almost 20,000 fighters halved in the past five years, according to U.S. military intelligence, while their morale...