It is the world's biggest carbon emitter, it holds vast reserves of wealth but, although so far it has been shielded from the financial turmoil, orders for its various manufacturing centres are set to fall as a result of the slowing demand from the industrialised nations.
But although such claims are frightening, and the more so the more distant the memory of the disease, they should be subjected to the same rigorous scrutiny as any other apparent scientific discovery especially by the reviewers and editors of influential journals.
The causes are in doubt (see article), but then, strictly speaking, so are the facts: although the broad picture is clear, some of the study's findings are debatable.
It's not just the obvious journalism route, although that does interest some students, but in doing interviews and so on, they become more aware of the wider world.
So although he's seriously wealthy, Hintze is anything but flashy.
But enough of them are likely to do so to put him ahead decisively, although not perhaps to give him the 83 votes he needs to win outright.
But Mr Hardwick said that although the "mechanics" of the prison service had coped so far, it had inevitably become harder to maintain normal prison regimes, with education programmes suffering.
"This afternoon we couldn't do so much due to the weather, but this morning it looked OK, although the tyres don't last very long!"
Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, was actually indicted last year for perjury and obstruction of justice, not for naming the agent to a columnist--although the special prosecutor appears to have implied that Libby had done so--but for incorrectly recalling who had told him the name of the CIA agent.
But demand for cells is outstripping this new supply: although 3, 800 new places have been created so far this year, prisoner numbers are up by 6, 700.
From Strauss's perspective, it was not so much the ball-throwing incident - although he does not condone that - but the missed run-out during the following over when Broad, still distracted and angry, fired the return wildly over Graeme Swann's head, and the opportunity was lost.
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