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1. Some 3.4 million acres have burned in 19,000 fires in Texas over the last five months. There is charred land everywhere. It's so dry that the blistering sun, magnified through the end of a broken Coke or beer bottle, can start a fire.2. If this were a normal year, an August cattle auction in Emory would see maybe 100 to 200 head. There's more than 700 head today. And that's down from the more than 1,000 head sold here every Tuesday for much of this summer. Because the sad truth is, East Texas is starting to run out of stock to sell.3. Although these cows were bred for the heat, they weren't bred for this. They look absolutely baked.4. "It will change. It will change Texas," Austin says. "A lot of these smaller livestock auctions may have to close their doors due to the lack of cattle."5. Farming and ranching in Texas has become mostly an older man's occupation. One look around the auction room confirms that. And the generation gap is going to be a drought-effect multiplier.6. my neighbor was screaming into the phone that my house was on fire7. Watch them parade through, one by one, and it becomes clear that something terrible and perhaps permanent is happening here.8. And as sad as the cattle look, the horses for sale can look even more pathetic.
20110815 rats save life1. Rats have long been guilty of spreading disease. But now they've gone into the diagnosis side. 2. TB is the number-one infectious disease killer in the world.3. the most common way to diagnose TB, visually checking sputum samples for the microbe that causes the disease, requires sophisticated equipment and trained personnel4. And it's not all that accurate. 5. That's where the rats come in.6. That may not sound like much, but remember a person with TB can infect another dozen or so people over the course of a year. So that's more than 7,000 people that could be saved by a rat.
201108171. President Obama is reaching out to the nation's heartland to help him identify ways to encourage more economic growth in rural communities. To that end the president hosted a forum today on rural development at a community college in northeastern Iowa2. Iowa already enjoys an enviably low unemployment rate of just 6 %. But the president says this state's economy is not as strong as it could be.3. He announced variety of steps to encourage rural business development including . 4. It's helping people sell goods not just down the street but across the country and around the world. 5. After slowing down the first half of the year, some parts of the economy are fairly better than others.6. Housing remains the weakest sector of the economy, as shown by July residential construction numbers from the Commerce Department.7. The economy of Texas is growing at roughly twice the national average, but the question is: How much did Rick Perry and his low-tax, low-regulation philosophy influence that growth?
8. So it's not just the last 10 years; this has been going on now for 21 years — at least9. Hammond says easy access to inexpensive labor has long been a critical part of the economy's success.10. Through his leadership, we were able to fill the budget gap without any new or additional taxes11.Hammond and Perry say Texas is attractive to businesses because there's no corporate income tax, no state income tax, and environmental and other state regulations on Texas businesses are kept to a minimum. 12. Critics reply that there's a big downside to these policies, as 13. To some extent, people in Texas just do without a lot of the public services that inhabitants of other states enjoy14. What is undeniable is that relative to the rest of the country, Texas is adding the most jobs by far. Unfortunately, it has not been enough.
201108181. Just when you thought the markets had stabilized, it looks like today will bring another rough and tumble day on Wall Street.2. The Dow plunged 500 points, more than 4 percent, in early trading, while the S&P was down 4.5 percent and Nasdaq was down close to 5 percent.3. the selloff comes in response to worries about the stability of European lenders and worries about a world economic slowdown:4. The Justice Department is investigating whether Standard & Poor's improperly boosted ratings on mortgage securities that later turned out to be toxic, helping trigger the worst financial crisis in decades.
201108221. She was trying to figure out:
201108191. Monday marks 15 years since President Clinton signed an overhaul of the nation's welfare system into law. The president said the measure wasn't perfect, but provided a historic opportunity to fix a system that didn't work.2. "Today we are ending welfare as we know it," he said in a Rose Garden ceremony on Aug. 22, 1996. "But I hope this day will be remembered not for what it ended, but for what it began."3. What it was supposed to begin was a program that would get the poor into the workforce and end their dependence on public aid. In bad economic times, it was also supposed to provide a safety net. A new study finds, however, that in the past few years that hasn't always been the case.4.
20101. We like to think that2. That’s not always the case, at least for3. That’s according to an article in4. They had assumed that these types of devices should and would be subject to random double-blinded studies with controls over an appropriate time-frame to investigate safety and efficacy. But for 51 of the devices—65 percent—approval was based on a single study. Only 27 percent of studies were randomized, and only 14 percent were blinded. Only half of the devices were compared with controls.5. The authors recognize the tension between sufficient testing and the need to get new drugs and devices to the public.6. they also have great potential for risk and adverse events
1/5/20101. No surprise: machines and humans have differing opinions about art.2. And, unlike in chess, people far outshone their silicon competitors. 3. Computer algorithms judged the art by obvious and quantifiable parameters; But humans classified art based on complex psychological evaluation.4. This kind of analysis is crucial for correctly identifying art
1/6/20101. Sometimes it pays to , at least if you’re a tasty caterpillar trying to avoid getting eaten by hungry birds2. Animals have come up with some pretty clever tricks for keeping themselves off a predator’s dinner plate3. Some use camouflage, adopting colors and patterns that help them blend into the environment. Others masquerade as something inedible, like bird droppings or twigs. 4. But scientists got to wondering whether the two approaches are really so different. To find out, scientists presented 5. That means , which, for a caterpillar on a leaf in the wild, could mean the difference between eating and getting eaten.
1/8/20101. It's hard to mistake that sound.2. Enough to give nightmares to musk ox and Arctic hares, the favorite prey of the long-legged white wolves of the Arctic3. Of course, it would be impossible for scientists to personally track the white wolves in winter. So 4. Now the question becomes how the wolves know when to stop using the sea ice once the spring thaw begins.
1/12/20101. But exactly why does bright light hurt the migraine sufferer? A possible answer was published. A big clue is that2. But light did aggravate the migraines of the legally blind group. Researchers thus suspected a group of light-sensing retinal cells that help regulate sleeping and waking, because these are the only active light receptors in the legally blind group.3. The scientists hope the findings lead to therapies that can give migraine sufferers a brighter future
1/13/20101. Check any gardening blog and the question of whether water can burn comes up with some regularity. But the problem had never been thoroughly tested.2. Now a study in a journal called New Phytologist confirms that water droplets can focus sunlight to the point that it burns, a finding that applies to plants and to people.3. And the same is true on you.4. Cooling off in the pool might seem like a stellar idea. But the resulting water droplets, propped up by your body hair, poolside, could turn you from lounger to lobster.
1/15/20101. What do a whale and a frog have in common? 2. if you've ever heard the eerie song of the humpback whale, you know that it doesn't sound like3. But scientists at the University of Florida Health Science Center have compared the calls made by 500 different animals, from crickets to crocodiles , and ostriches to chimps 4. they find that the basic features of every animal's cry, such as frequency and duration, depend on the creature's metabolism. Which, in turn, depends on the animal’s body size and temperature.5.Cause we still don't know what they're saying. And I'm not getting close enough to ask. 6. when the calls are adjusted to account for differences in body size and temperature, a whale sounds a lot like a frog
1/18/20101. It turns out that running shoes upped the pressure, or torque, on knee joints by 38 percent over bare feet. The hips experienced a pressure increase of 54 percent. Walking in inch-and-a-half high stilettos only worsened knee torque by about 20 percent in previous studies. 2. But apparently letting the rubber hit the road is like various spiritual rituals: tough on the body, but good for the sole.
1/20/20101. Most of us blink without thinking2. Surgery is an option—a small piece of muscle transplanted from the leg can sometimes work. But 3. The blink system starts with, The sling attaches to bone around the eye. It’s then linked to an electrostatic polyme4. Here’s the creepy part—the mechanism’s been tested on cadavers, which are blinking away. But now that the principle is proven, in the next years real patients could be on the brink of a blink.
1. Some 3.4 million acres have burned in 19,000 fires in Texas over the last five months. There is charred land everywhere. It's so dry that the blistering sun, magnified through the end of a broken Coke or beer bottle, can start a fire.2. If this were a normal year, an August cattle auction in Emory would see maybe 100 to 200 head. There's more than 700 head today. And that's down from the more than 1,000 head sold here every Tuesday for much of this summer. Because the sad truth is, East Texas is starting to run out of stock to sell.3. Although these cows were bred for the heat, they weren't bred for this. They look absolutely baked.4. "It will change. It will change Texas," Austin says. "A lot of these smaller livestock auctions may have to close their doors due to the lack of cattle."5. Farming and ranching in Texas has become mostly an older man's occupation. One look around the auction room confirms that. And the generation gap is going to be a drought-effect multiplier.6. my neighbor was screaming into the phone that my house was on fire7. Watch them parade through, one by one, and it becomes clear that something terrible and perhaps permanent is happening here.8. And as sad as the cattle look, the horses for sale can look even more pathetic.
20110815 rats save life1. Rats have long been guilty of spreading disease. But now they've gone into the diagnosis side. 2. TB is the number-one infectious disease killer in the world.3. the most common way to diagnose TB, visually checking sputum samples for the microbe that causes the disease, requires sophisticated equipment and trained personnel4. And it's not all that accurate. 5. That's where the rats come in.6. That may not sound like much, but remember a person with TB can infect another dozen or so people over the course of a year. So that's more than 7,000 people that could be saved by a rat.
201108171. President Obama is reaching out to the nation's heartland to help him identify ways to encourage more economic growth in rural communities. To that end the president hosted a forum today on rural development at a community college in northeastern Iowa2. Iowa already enjoys an enviably low unemployment rate of just 6 %. But the president says this state's economy is not as strong as it could be.3. He announced variety of steps to encourage rural business development including . 4. It's helping people sell goods not just down the street but across the country and around the world. 5. After slowing down the first half of the year, some parts of the economy are fairly better than others.6. Housing remains the weakest sector of the economy, as shown by July residential construction numbers from the Commerce Department.7. The economy of Texas is growing at roughly twice the national average, but the question is: How much did Rick Perry and his low-tax, low-regulation philosophy influence that growth?
8. So it's not just the last 10 years; this has been going on now for 21 years — at least9. Hammond says easy access to inexpensive labor has long been a critical part of the economy's success.10. Through his leadership, we were able to fill the budget gap without any new or additional taxes11.Hammond and Perry say Texas is attractive to businesses because there's no corporate income tax, no state income tax, and environmental and other state regulations on Texas businesses are kept to a minimum. 12. Critics reply that there's a big downside to these policies, as 13. To some extent, people in Texas just do without a lot of the public services that inhabitants of other states enjoy14. What is undeniable is that relative to the rest of the country, Texas is adding the most jobs by far. Unfortunately, it has not been enough.
201108181. Just when you thought the markets had stabilized, it looks like today will bring another rough and tumble day on Wall Street.2. The Dow plunged 500 points, more than 4 percent, in early trading, while the S&P was down 4.5 percent and Nasdaq was down close to 5 percent.3. the selloff comes in response to worries about the stability of European lenders and worries about a world economic slowdown:4. The Justice Department is investigating whether Standard & Poor's improperly boosted ratings on mortgage securities that later turned out to be toxic, helping trigger the worst financial crisis in decades.
201108221. She was trying to figure out:
A) If she really had a shot at a job given her age, because everybody knows that given the choice, employers will often bypass older workers for younger ones.
B) If she did get a job, how she could make that part-time job work with the part-time job she already had. She needed a second job because she wasn't just making enough to, well, make it.
201108191. Monday marks 15 years since President Clinton signed an overhaul of the nation's welfare system into law. The president said the measure wasn't perfect, but provided a historic opportunity to fix a system that didn't work.2. "Today we are ending welfare as we know it," he said in a Rose Garden ceremony on Aug. 22, 1996. "But I hope this day will be remembered not for what it ended, but for what it began."3. What it was supposed to begin was a program that would get the poor into the workforce and end their dependence on public aid. In bad economic times, it was also supposed to provide a safety net. A new study finds, however, that in the past few years that hasn't always been the case.4.
20101. We like to think that2. That’s not always the case, at least for3. That’s according to an article in4. They had assumed that these types of devices should and would be subject to random double-blinded studies with controls over an appropriate time-frame to investigate safety and efficacy. But for 51 of the devices—65 percent—approval was based on a single study. Only 27 percent of studies were randomized, and only 14 percent were blinded. Only half of the devices were compared with controls.5. The authors recognize the tension between sufficient testing and the need to get new drugs and devices to the public.6. they also have great potential for risk and adverse events
1/5/20101. No surprise: machines and humans have differing opinions about art.2. And, unlike in chess, people far outshone their silicon competitors. 3. Computer algorithms judged the art by obvious and quantifiable parameters; But humans classified art based on complex psychological evaluation.4. This kind of analysis is crucial for correctly identifying art
1/6/20101. Sometimes it pays to , at least if you’re a tasty caterpillar trying to avoid getting eaten by hungry birds2. Animals have come up with some pretty clever tricks for keeping themselves off a predator’s dinner plate3. Some use camouflage, adopting colors and patterns that help them blend into the environment. Others masquerade as something inedible, like bird droppings or twigs. 4. But scientists got to wondering whether the two approaches are really so different. To find out, scientists presented 5. That means , which, for a caterpillar on a leaf in the wild, could mean the difference between eating and getting eaten.
1/8/20101. It's hard to mistake that sound.2. Enough to give nightmares to musk ox and Arctic hares, the favorite prey of the long-legged white wolves of the Arctic3. Of course, it would be impossible for scientists to personally track the white wolves in winter. So 4. Now the question becomes how the wolves know when to stop using the sea ice once the spring thaw begins.
1/12/20101. But exactly why does bright light hurt the migraine sufferer? A possible answer was published. A big clue is that2. But light did aggravate the migraines of the legally blind group. Researchers thus suspected a group of light-sensing retinal cells that help regulate sleeping and waking, because these are the only active light receptors in the legally blind group.3. The scientists hope the findings lead to therapies that can give migraine sufferers a brighter future
1/13/20101. Check any gardening blog and the question of whether water can burn comes up with some regularity. But the problem had never been thoroughly tested.2. Now a study in a journal called New Phytologist confirms that water droplets can focus sunlight to the point that it burns, a finding that applies to plants and to people.3. And the same is true on you.4. Cooling off in the pool might seem like a stellar idea. But the resulting water droplets, propped up by your body hair, poolside, could turn you from lounger to lobster.
1/15/20101. What do a whale and a frog have in common? 2. if you've ever heard the eerie song of the humpback whale, you know that it doesn't sound like3. But scientists at the University of Florida Health Science Center have compared the calls made by 500 different animals, from crickets to crocodiles , and ostriches to chimps 4. they find that the basic features of every animal's cry, such as frequency and duration, depend on the creature's metabolism. Which, in turn, depends on the animal’s body size and temperature.5.Cause we still don't know what they're saying. And I'm not getting close enough to ask. 6. when the calls are adjusted to account for differences in body size and temperature, a whale sounds a lot like a frog
1/18/20101. It turns out that running shoes upped the pressure, or torque, on knee joints by 38 percent over bare feet. The hips experienced a pressure increase of 54 percent. Walking in inch-and-a-half high stilettos only worsened knee torque by about 20 percent in previous studies. 2. But apparently letting the rubber hit the road is like various spiritual rituals: tough on the body, but good for the sole.
1/20/20101. Most of us blink without thinking2. Surgery is an option—a small piece of muscle transplanted from the leg can sometimes work. But 3. The blink system starts with, The sling attaches to bone around the eye. It’s then linked to an electrostatic polyme4. Here’s the creepy part—the mechanism’s been tested on cadavers, which are blinking away. But now that the principle is proven, in the next years real patients could be on the brink of a blink.