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...What all three scholars can agree on, though, is that the time is ripe for change. In the last two decades, 42 states have passed felony-level animal cruelty laws, as a tenfold increase in the number of animal law courses across the country has produced more attorneys and legislators focused on the issue. And though these laws still treat animals as property, animal lawyers argue the stautes could form the basis for ending that property status, and with it some of society’s most systematic abuses of animals...
...feed rivers from which 500 million people draw water); and there are Chinese plans to dam the upper Mekong, halving water flow to 65 million Southeast Asians. In a 2003 report, the U.N. Environment Program said water shortages already affected 400 million people and predicted that number would multiply tenfold by 2050. At that time, more than a sixth of the world's population, 1.1 billion people, had erratic supplies of clean water or none at all. UNEP chief Klaus Toepfer warned in an accompanying statement that "the next war could be a war [over] water...
When scientists talk about a "big" California quake, they are generally speaking of anything higher than 6.7 on the Richter scale. (The Richter scale is logarithmic, meaning that each number represents a tenfold increase in magnitude.) Although small quakes can create major damage if they occur in a densely populated area - a 1960 earthquake in Morocco registered only 5.75 but destroyed the entire city of Agadir and killed 12,000 people - earthquakes above a 6 are almost guaranteed...
...Murray said. Asians, many of them professional and small businessowners with roots in India and Vietnam, are becoming an important force in local elections, particularly in Fort Bend County, the heart of the district where the sugar fields are giving way to suburban growth. Asian political participation has grown tenfold since 2006, and some 30,000 cast ballots in this year's Democratic primary, evidence of the appeal Barack Obama has among the district's ethnic minorities. Asians make up about 5% of the voting age population in the district, Hispanics 18% and African-Americans 10%. "The district has moved...
Although the North Koreans’ musical instruments were in poor condition, Koh said that the musicians exceeded his expectations tenfold...