Most of our serious illnesses and deaths in the U. S. now come from preventable diseases, such as heart disease. But we know what works to improve health.
Pay has risen sharply for the highly educated, and those people continue to reap rich rewards into old age because these days the educated elderly are more productive than the preceding generation.
Nowadays the rainbow is used by many popular movements for peace and the environment, representing the possibility of a better world in the Mure and promising sunshine after the rain.
Now Germany's Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass has revived the memory of the 9,000 dead, including more than 4,000 children—with his latest novel Crab Walk, published last month.
The massive earthquake brought down a landslide this beautiful mountain valley in the Padang Pariaman region of West Sumatra, leveling the ground and turning it into a wasteland .
European nations were slow to bail-out bankrupt Greece last spring but are now pressing debt-addled Ireland to take a $100 billion stability fund check over Irish objections.
And supply is tightening. Monsoons and bad weather last year damaged sugar crops in India and Mexico; and the largest sugar exporter, Brazil, now USES half the sugar it produces to make ethanol.