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1. Advertising - Content Sales Rising (International Herald Tribune - Richtel)
   "More Internet users are showing a willingness to pay for content online - subscribing to news sites, for example, or paying fees to send e-greeting cards - suggesting a shift in consumers' expectations that online services should be free, according to a survey of cyberspending patterns." 7-02

2. -Editorial: Who Profits from Rising Gas Prices? (Mercury News)
   "Texas-based Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil company, in July reported record net income of $15.5 billion for the first half of this year, a 38 percent increase over the same period a year ago. Other major oil companies reported similar fortunes." 9-05

3. -06-22-07 Psychological Trauma to U.S. Troops Rising (Guardian Unlimited)
   "Mr Gates was responding to concern by a Pentagon mental health taskforce report that incidence of psychological trauma is rising with prolonged combat duty: 38% of regular soldiers, 31% of marines, 49% of national guard, and 43% of marine reservists had symptoms of post-traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, and other psychological problems within three months of returning from active duty." 06-07

4. Polar Ice Caps and Rising Ocean Levels (HowStuffWorks.com)
   "The main ice covered landmass is Antarctica at the South Pole, with about 90 percent of the world's ice (and 70 percent of its fresh water). Antarctica is covered with ice an average of 2,133 meters (7,000 feet) thick. If all of the Antarctic ice melted, sea levels around the world would rise about 61 meters (200 feet). But the average temperature in Antarctica is -37°C, so the ice there is in no danger of melting. In fact in most parts of the continent it never gets above freezing."
   
   "At the other end of the world, the North Pole, the ice is not nearly as thick as at the South Pole. The ice floats on the Arctic Ocean. If it melted sea levels would not be affected."
   
   "There is a significant amount of ice covering Greenland, which would add another 7 meters (20 feet) to the oceans if it melted. Because Greenland is closer to the equator than Antarctica, the temperatures there are higher, so the ice is more likely to melt." 07-07

5. -12-18-13 Glaciologist Warns of Rising Seas (RollingStone.com)
   "In Box’s view, glaciologists have spent too much time thinking about the physics of how glaciers move but not enough time thinking about how they melt, and how meltwater – those beautiful turquoise pools in Greenland glaciers – seeps down into crevasses and flows along the base, carrying heat with it, and accelerating the disintegration of the glacier. 'Traditional glaciologists tend to be hard-ice guys,' says Box. 'They’re not used to thinking about the connection between the atmosphere and ice, and how small changes in temperature and reflectivity can amplify over time.' " 12-13

6. -01-13-14 Carbon Dioxide Emissions Rising Again in the United States (Science.Time.com)
   "Energy related CO2 emissions in the United States are projected to have risen in 2013, the first growth in three years, due largely to an increase in the use of coal to produce electricity, according to data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)." 01-14

7. Oceans Rising in This Century (MotherJones.com)
   "In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near-term stability of global sea levels." 06-16

8. Rising Sea Levels (CNN)
   Provides data on how much change we are likely to experience. 03-2023

9. Pope John Paul II (Biography.com)
   Provides a pictorial biography and other information on the Pope, discusses the Pope's impact, and details how a Pope is selected.
   
   "He is the most widely traveled pope in history, having visited over 116 countries on missions of goodwill, promoting human rights, and condemning the decline of spiritual values brought about by the rising materialism of the twentieth century." 2-05

10. Houston Endangered by Global Warming (International Herald Tribune - Knowlton)
    Discusses the sinking of the land in Houston and the rising ocean levels. 5-02

11. 06-26-03 Confronting the Culture of Violence in Saudi Arabia (BBC News - Saleh)
    "In the US, politicians and commentators have accused Saudi Arabia's mixture of autocratic rule and puritanical Wahabi Islam of providing a fertile breeding ground for fanaticism and violence."
    
    "Rising violence and intolerance anger liberals and moderates. Within the country, the attacks have spurred liberals and moderate Islamists to openly express their dismay at what they consider an expanding 'culture of violence' promoted by religious radicals." 6-03

12. 11-28-03 More Hungry This Year (CBS News)
    "...for the third year in a row, the number of hungry Americans has been rising. The government now says 35 million Americans don't know where their next meal is going to come from, and that number includes 13 million children." 11-03

13. Soot Important in Global Warming (Scientific American)
    "Greenhouse gases have taken much of the blame for rising global surface temperatures over the past century. The results of a new study suggest that soot has done a fair amount of damage as well."
    
    "In a paper published online today by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, James E. Hansen of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Larissa Nazarenko of Columbia University report that soot may have caused fully 25 percent of the warming observed since 1880." 12-03

14. 01-03-04 Bush to Cut Domestic Spending (Bloomberg.com)
    "President Bush's budget, which will be sent to Congress by Feb. 2, will include several tax cut proposals, including new measures to promote individual savings and tax credits to help uninsured people buy health insurance, the newspaper reported."
    
    "The president's budget plan for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 also includes measures to control the rising costs of housing vouchers for the poor, require veterans to may more for some medications and eliminate some job training programs, the Times said." 1-04

15. 03-03-04 Record U.S. Trade Deficit (CBS News)
    "The United States registered a record $489.4 billion trade deficit for 2003 as a rebounding U.S. economy strengthened Americans' appetites for a wide range of foreign-made goods, including cars, clothing and TVs."
    
    "Critics point to the deficits as evidence that the president's free-trade policies aren't working and are a factor in the loss of U.S. jobs."
    
    "The latest snapshot of trade activity comes amid rising tensions over global trade and concerns about the flight, or outsourcing, of U.S. jobs to other countries. President Bush's chief economist, Gregory Mankiw, struck a political nerve earlier this week when he described the loss of U.S. jobs to overseas companies as 'just a new way of doing international trade.' "
    
    "Painfully slow job growth in the United States is a political sore spot for the president and an issue that Democrats, seeking to capture the White House, like to point out to voters in an election year." 3-04

16. 06-30-04 Interest Rates Go Up (USA Today)
    "The Federal Reserve raised its target for a key interest rate by a quarter-point Wednesday, starting what is expected to be a cycle of rising interest rates that pulls the plug on the cheapest credit in decades." 6-04

17. Bankruptcy Rules Toughen (Christian Science Monitor)
    "For better or worse, the use of personal bankruptcy to make a fresh start is about to be sharply curtailed."
    
    "Legislation moving through the Senate this week is, to backers, a long overdue tightening in an era of rising indebtedness and bankruptcy declarations." 3-05

18. Rotterdam Storm Surge Barrier (CBS News)
    "The Dutch long ago learned that this is a really simple problem — if you want to keep the land and water where they are supposed to be, you have to spend whatever it takes to build a barrier to keep them apart."
    
    "With climate change, rising sea levels and more severe storms in the future, the Dutch think they'll have to close this barrier every three or four years."
    
    "In Holland they think the choice in the U.S. is inevitable." 9-05

19. -09-19-05 Venezuela vs USA (WorldPress.org)
    "As President Hugo Chavez adeptly leverages Venezuela’s oil wealth to forge an array of regional alliances that leave the United States out in the cold, U.S. — Venezuela tensions are heating up. Boosted by the rising prices of oil and the deepening regional anger over U.S. imperial arrogance, Chavez has proved able not only to construct a counter-hegemonic constituency in Venezuela among the country’s poor majority but also to piece together a regional network that is challenging U.S. political and economic dominance. Uncle Sam is becoming the odd man out in the hemisphere claimed as U.S. domain since the early 19 th century." 9-05

20. Scientists: Arctic Ice Loss Triggering Global Warming (BBC News)
    " 'September 2005 will set a new record minimum in the amount of Arctic sea ice cover,' said Mark Serreze, of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Boulder, Colorado.' "
    
    "The current rate of shrinkage they calculate at 8% per decade; at this rate there may be no ice at all during the summer of 2060."
    
    " 'These dark areas absorb a lot of the Sun's energy, much more than the ice, and what happens then is that the oceans start to warm up, and it becomes very difficult for ice to form during the following autumn and winter.' "
    
    " 'It looks like this is exactly what we're seeing - a positive feedback effect, a "tipping-point".' "
    
    "The idea behind tipping-points is that at some stage the rate of global warming would accelerate, as rising temperatures break down natural restraints or trigger environmental changes which release further amounts of greenhouse gases."
    
    "The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, a four-year study involving hundreds of scientists, projected an additional temperature rise of 4-7C by 2100." 9-05