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Across North America, warming-related changes are mowing down other flora too. Manzanita bushes in the West are dying back; some prickly pear cacti have lost their signature green and are instead a sickly pink; pine beetles in western Canada and the U.S. are chewing their way through tens of...
Human beings have spent 99 percent of their existence as hunter-gatherers, a profession for which they remain genetically adapted. The distinction between hunters and gatherers is, for the most part, a sexual one: 50,000 years ago, men single-mindedly focused on their prey in the sub-Saharan plain...
And then, last week, Slobo unexpectedly came back to Serbia, with a vengeance. He dredged up old memories, mostly unpleasant ones: memories of the dead and wounded, of burning cities, of convoys of refugees, of poverty, and of omnipresent fear. Milosevic ruled Serbia for almost 13 years, destroyed tens of...
Even in the booming Pearl River delta--China's furniture stronghold--research, innovation and technical know-how have failed to keep pace with production. But that too may change. According to Eric Kan, whose Hong Kong-- based Oasis Global Sourcing designs and procures luxury housewares on the mainland, "Chinese factories...
For me, sadly, it's the inevitable medium. I think that certainly it's right around the corner. Dreamworks certainly recognizes the tens of millions of dollars that will be saved in distribution costs in not having to make five, six, seven thousand 35mm prints, just in the domestic market...