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...miracle of modern commerce. In The Sushi Economy, Sasha Issenberg follows fish along a formidable logistics chain stretching from Canadian fishermen to Japanese auctioneers to Libyan tuna smugglers. He describes a patchwork economy in which traders bid thousands on a carcass, and minor variations in weather send ripples across continents. In Issenberg's view, the sushi trade symbolizes a "virtuous global commerce" - a system of exchange in which handshakes and individual innovations trump the faceless forces of multinational corporations. "Power is decentralized," he writes, "and supply and demand are regulated not by moguls but by local ideas about value...
Hurricane Dean crashed into Mexico on Aug. 21 with winds up to 168 m.p.h., making it the first Category 5 storm to hit land since 1992. It eventually slackened, but as hurricane risks increase, weather watchers at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are trying to sharpen their vigil on storms. Here...
RADAR Doppler weather radars give details on a storm's wind change as it crawls closer to the coast, scanning once every six minutes (plane observations come in only once every few hours...
...going to grow enough corn," he says. Now, however, it's a different story. During next month's harvest, Bunting says he expects a higher yield of corn - partly because he increased the amount of acres he's devoted to the crop, but also because the recent "good weather" has helped kernels of corn get plumper, and heavier. Corn's price is partly based on weight...
More than two dozen people across the region have been killed in weather-related incidents. Mud slides have been reported in the hilly terrain of southeastern Minnesota and southwestern Wisconsin, where rains have been particularly fierce. Iowans are bracing as a lake near Des Moines is expected to rise nearly 40 feet in the coming days. Record rainfall has been reported in towns like Hokah, Minn. The governors of Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin have declared states of emergency for parts of their states. Yet, the Midwestern storm's impact remains uneven: Nearly one-quarter of Minnesota...