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...Public health could suffer. Rising seas would contaminate water supplies with salt. Higher levels of urban ozone, the result of stronger sunlight and warmer temperatures, could worsen respiratory illnesses. More frequent hot spells could lead to a rise in heat-related deaths. Warmer temperatures could widen the range of disease-carrying rodents and bugs, such as mosquitoes and ticks, increasing the incidence of dengue fever, malaria, encephalitis, Lyme disease and other afflictions. Worst of all, this increase in temperatures is happening at a pace that outstrips anything the earth has seen in the past 100 million years. Humans will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Climate of Despair | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

Public health could suffer. Rising seas would contaminate water supplies with salt. Higher levels of urban ozone, the result of stronger sunlight and warmer temperatures, could worsen respiratory illnesses. More frequent hot spells could lead to a rise in heat-related deaths. Warmer temperatures could widen the range of disease-carrying rodents and bugs, such as mosquitoes and ticks, increasing the incidence of dengue fever, malaria, encephalitis, Lyme disease and other afflictions. Worst of all, this increase in temperatures is happening at a pace that outstrips anything the earth has seen in the past 100 million years. Humans will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Warming: Life In The Greenhouse | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...Public health could suffer. Rising seas would contaminate water supplies with salt. Higher levels of urban ozone, the result of stronger sunlight and warmer temperatures, could worsen respiratory illnesses. More frequent hot spells could lead to a rise in heat-related deaths. Warmer temperatures could widen the range of disease-carrying rodents and bugs, such as mosquitoes and ticks, increasing the incidence of dengue fever, malaria, encephalitis, Lyme disease and other afflictions. Worst of all, this increase in temperatures is happening at a pace that outstrips anything the earth has seen in the past 100 million years. Humans will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling the Heat | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...much for the rally. Wednesday, the Dow and NASDAQ hit the skids all over again on three bad earnings tidings: Communications-equipment maker Nortel warned that losses will widen beyond expectations in the current quarter. Disney announced plans to cut 4,000 jobs. And Palm said it will lose money in the first quarter - this after Wall Street dared to expect a profit from the hand-held computer king. Is this a case of one step forward, two steps back - or the other way around? TIME personal finance columnist and Wall Street guru Dan Kadlec explains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality Returns to Wall Street | 3/28/2001 | See Source »

...children out in Nakon Nayok. Her two daughters and nine-year-old son live with her uncle. Jacky sees them once a month, and she talks about how she likes to bring them new clothes and cook for them. When she talks about her kids, her almond-shaped eyes widen. "I used to dream of opening a small shop, like a gift shop or a 7-Eleven. Then I could take care of my children and make money. I used to dream about it all the time, and I even believed it was possible, that it was just barely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Need for Speed | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

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