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...world water gap right now, this minute," the World Commission on Water has warned, "and the crisis will only get worse. The consequences of failing to bridge the gap will be higher food prices and expensive food imports for water-scarce countries that are predominantly poor." Hunger and thirst are also linked to political instability and low rates of economic growth...
...overproduction of insulin because there?s so much food to process, and the pancreas quickly becomes exhausted and cuts down on insulin production. When the pancreas gives up, or slows down production, blood sugar starts to rise. That?s when people get the symptoms of diabetes, including excessive thirst, excessive urination and blurred vision...
...PAKISTAN Thirst for Change Two bomb blasts rocked the city of Karachi at the start of a one-day strike to protest government policies. The attacks, which killed one person and injured two others, followed overnight rioting during which police arrested 238 people. It was unclear whether the blasts were connected to the strike called by two regional groups to protest political and social issues, including the government's failure to deal with a chronic water shortage...
...companies. Other high scorers are Renault and BNP Paribas. Confidence Trick While its rivals issue profit warnings, German software giant SAP forecast 20% growth in sales in the first half of the year and announced an alliance with Yahoo to develop corporate websites. Shares rose 8%. Working Up a Thirst Labor unions voted to strike over a planned packaging-plant closure at Irish brewer Guinness, which produces 4 million pints of its famous dark stout...
...media should always be viewed with some degree of healthy skepticism. But when every decision is reviewed for its political overtones, when every newspaper is supported as an ally or combated as an opponent, when all interest in independent and fair assessment is replaced by a thirst for patronage and payback, society--and university campuses--will have lost something very great indeed...