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...intervening years, however, there has been evidence that the market often fails to react as quickly as problems demand. The world took 15 years to respond to signs of ozone depletion in the upper atmosphere, but because ozone-destroying chemicals take 15 years to migrate to that stratum, the real delay amounts to 30 years. Moreover, these chemicals can remain in the atmosphere as long as 100 years. In addition, market forces often work perversely to hasten the demise of species and resources. The increasing appetite for bluefin tuna among sushi lovers and health-conscious diners has vastly increased...
Only two percent of the site, which covers more than 150 acres, has been excavated. Next summer, in its ninth season, the expedition will continue the dig to the next stratum, which dates to approximately the eighth century B.C.E...
...learn. It isn't Charles Manson you think of in "Helter Skelter" but John Milton on the topography of the netherworld: "And in the lowest depths, a lower depth." The thesis of the show is that just below the sunny promotional surface of Los Angeles there is a stratum of alienation, murder, bad dreams and apocalyptic fantasies that reflect themselves inexorably...
However, when the top layer of the middle classes -- professionals, senior managers, proprietors whose businesses have not been damaged by the current hard times -- is skimmed off, a certain unity appears. That top stratum is relatively small. But even some members of that favored group share a strong bond of attitude with those a step or two down: they share a feeling of loss. A recent TIME/CNN survey showed that 88% think it is more difficult, compared with a few years ago, "for the average middle-class American to make ends meet...
...became popular in the late 1970s, "instant millionaires" were the isolated stuff of media sensation. Now Porchia, Ryan and Palermo are part of something else entirely: an expanding niche of American society filled with overnight plutocrats. As lottomania has swept the nation, one result is an entirely new social stratum of millionaires, over 3,000 in all, and more are added each month. With some prizes soaring past nine digits (the largest: $118 million in California last April), a few recipients even approach being superrich. But America's pot-of-gold winners are to a surprising degree the opposite...