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...InBev won a court ruling to end the blockade. The company's management says it still prefers to seek a negotiated solution with its workers, but the unions have threatened a full strike if the ruling is enforced. In the end, there is probably little the unions can do to prevent the job cuts, says Theo Vervloet, chairman of the Belgian Brewers trade association. "AB InBev is thinking on a bigger scale and wants to go for volume rather than quality," he says. In other words, AB InBev is focusing on a grand strategy, which means that what happens...
...Still, YouTube isn't completely outmaneuvered. The site has massive traffic and will benefit from (essentially) free advertising across Google's network: the search giant can run ads for the new rental platform on YouTube, in Google search results and in its suite of popular services like Gmail and Google Maps. Google also has an established payment platform in Google Checkout, which will make paying for the rentals relatively easy...
...mistake is a black eye for the IPCC and for the climate-science community as a whole. Climate scientists are still dealing with the Climategate controversy, which involved hacked e-mails from a major British climatology center that cast doubt on the solidity of evidence for global warming. (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...still not clear exactly how the error made it into the IPCC's assessment, though climate scientists point out that the document was thousands of pages long and that the Himalaya claim wasn't included in the summary of the report, which was boiled down for policymakers and received the most attention from reviewers. "Honest mistakes do happen," admits Benjamin Santer, a climate modeler at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. "The bulk of the science is clear and compelling and rests on multiple lines of evidence," he says, not just one case...
Indeed, while Himalayan ice will almost certainly still be here in 2035, it is definitely melting - and that will have a serious impact on the billions of people in Asia who depend at least partially on Himalayan meltwater. Yao Tandong, head of China's Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, has done on-the-ground research on the Chinese side of the Himalayas - the world's biggest collection of ice outside the two poles - and reported last year that by the end of the century, as much as 70% of the mountain range's glaciers could disappear. And far from providing...