global warming-dependent commerce.

Quoted: The Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic and the Pacific is now open due to ice loss, the European space agency says.

Quoted: Public nudity is losing its power to shock

never thought public nudity would reach an all-time low, nor that it would be the first news on Economist.

Quoted: For many in the West, diseases are a bit like birds: everyone gets them but poor countries have more exotic species. Rich-country maladies are things like heart disease, cancer and diabetes: “chronic” conditions often resulting from diet or physical inactivity. Developing countries suffer more lurid and acute infections: malaria, tuberculosis, measles, cholera. HIV/AIDS is unusual in that it affects rich and poor alike.

India 1, drug companies, 0 --> more access to much needed AIDS and other drugs for patients in the developing world

Quoted: Drug companies can continue to make less expensive generic drugs, much of which flow to the developing world, after an Indian court Monday rejected a patent law challenge.

Indian companies provide 84 percent of the drugs to fight AIDS that Doctors Without Borders supplies to patients worldwide. They also provide more than 25 percent of other essential drugs used by the organization.

Other relief programs are equally dependent on Indian-manufactured products.

Quoted: James Ingham meets the people and mules taking books to the mountain villages of Venezuela.

A "MULE"bile library, heh! That's awesome...can we do this for remote Indian villages? That's going to be my start-up company...any investors?

Quoted: "The pain was immediate and felt like my body was on fire. I was in excruciating pain from beginning to end and I nearly quit ...

holy crap! how the hell did he survive not getting hypothermia?

Quoted: The Los Angeles Galaxy hopes the blond superstar will help rebrand soccer as a glamour game. But will his team measure up on the field?

can't wait to see Beckham play in LA!

Quoted: And the winners are...