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...global greenhouse-gas emissions go unchecked. Beyond a simple rise in average temperatures, climate change will also lead to an increase in Australia's extreme heat waves and droughts. Southwestern Australia is already in the grip of a prolonged drought that has decimated agriculture and led to widespread water rationing; the region is expected to see longer and more extreme dry periods in the future as a result of steady warming...
...person's right-to-die. Eluana Englaro, a 38-year-old Italian woman, who had been in a vegetative state since suffering irreversible brain damage in a car crash 17 years ago, died four days after doctors in the northern city of Udine began to cut off food and water. Her father Beppino, who had won a decade-long legal battle to carry out what the family says was the young woman's wish never to be kept alive artificially, was in a different city for yet another related court appearance at the time of his daughter's death...
...started calling me Ling Ling, I got pissed. 19. I can't take guys who wear sports jerseys seriously. 20. Danny DeVito broke my pinky toe. 21. One time, Sean came over and asked what I was cooking. I grabbed his hand and shoved it into the pot of water. I had just put it on the stove, so it wasn't hot yet, but he didn't know that. 22. I find puppets to be one of the most satisfying ways of expressing myself. 23. When I was a kid, I confiscated one of my mother's slips...
...Although most people questioned in an unscientific survey on the streets of Tehran said they won't vote for Ahmadinejad, many believed that the incumbent would still carry the rural areas. "He's been good to the provinces," says sportswear merchant Ali Paykani, 53. "He's laid water and gas pipelines, and given them agricultural loans. Here in the bazaar, no one wants him to be president again, but these elections are decided by the people in the provinces...
...layoffs in China's coastal manufacturing regions, and many people are heading back to their homes in the interior. Most came from farming regions, and local governments had hoped that agriculture could absorb some of unemployed returnees. But with fewer crops to harvest, and herd reductions imminent due to water shortages, there will be little need for more hands...