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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...
Religious pilgrims were the first to come here, in the 10th century. In more recent times, golfing pilgrims have flocked to St. Andrews to pay homage to a stretch of weather-beaten land on the edge of the North Sea where the game was invented 600 years ago. When they set off down the first fairway of the Old Course into the prevailing wind, they walk with heads bowed...
...highways in the sky," as Blakey calls them - and chart their own routes that are either more direct or that dodge a storm system. The end result is that flights on average would be shorter and fewer planes would have to be delayed or canceled because of bad weather...