• No climate model has predicted a complete shutdown during this century, though many suggest that a slowdown is possible.

    ECONOMIST: The science

  • Carbon dioxide and other gases, scientists say, will boost global temperatures by between 2.7F to 10.8F during this century.

    CNN: Global warming may 'double heat deaths'

  • Though the greatest destruction of country houses has occurred during this century, there has always been a certain rate of attrition.

    ECONOMIST: English snobbery

  • Yet all this happened during a century when the Earth's average temperature rose by abut 0.7C - raising the question of whether warmer temperatures and wetter conditions in some regions really would influence malaria transmission.

    BBC: Climate change is 'distraction' on malaria spread

  • Keynesian economics has served as the model for the US and was employed many times during the 1900s as well as this century to stimulate growth after the 9-11.

    FORBES: Keynes is Dead - Let Him Rest

  • This is still slow going during a century which has seen 149 such commissions including, among others, one on arsenic in beer and one on university education in Dundee.

    ECONOMIST: Sins of commission | The

  • The Liceu had long been Spain's grandest and most respected opera house, especially during the 70-odd years of this century when Madrid's Teatro Real was not functioning as a theatre.

    ECONOMIST: More gaudy than Gaudi

  • The job description for Benedict's successor, whoever he may be, must reflect this sea-change in the requirements for the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church which has occurred during this first full papacy of the 21st Century.

    BBC: Pope Benedict: Will retirement seal his legacy?

  • During the first eight months of this year American Century's Target 2025 Fund returned a scorching 28%, making it one of the best-performing bond funds available to individual investors.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • National Hurricane Center data show a dramatic decline in major hurricanes striking the United States during the past half century (see my recent column on this here).

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • This film, broadcasted during the 43rd edition of the 21st Century Show produced by the United Nations Television, highlights the dangers faced by journalists while performing their job in the country.

    UNESCO: Communication and Information

  • Varadhan, New York University, for his work in probability theory, especially his work on large deviations from expected random behavior which has revolutionized this field of study during the second half of the 20th century, and become a cornerstone of both pure and applied probability.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Honors the Country��s Top Innovators and Scientists | The White House

  • However, India, which has already this year passed the 1 billion mark and may during the next century have the dubious honour of overtaking China as the world's most populous country, has shown that poverty and over-population need not necessarily go hand in hand.

    ECONOMIST: Unshapely world, too old or too young

  • According to a study led by two Stanford University scientists and published earlier this year, advances in high-yield agriculture during the past half-century have prevented massive amounts of greenhouse gases--the equivalent of 590 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide--from entering the atmosphere.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • "The crucial thing is this diamond has been in circulation certainly since the beginning of the 16th Century during which time it has been in the hands of whole sequence of different rulers, " told Radio 4's Today programme.

    BBC: Koh-i-Noor diamond 'staying put' in UK says Cameron

  • For example, the mangle and dance hall admissions were added in the 1950s, the cassette recorder and dried mashed potato went in during the 1970s, while muffins and fruit smoothies joined the basket at the start of this century.

    BBC: Inflation basket: E-books added by ONS

  • This type of shift has occurred repeatedly in the last century, both before and during (modest) global warming from greenhouse gases.

    FORBES: Climate Change Alarmists Can't Seem To Buy A Major Hurricane

  • Entitled U.S. Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st Century: Getting it Right , this book, which will be distributed to Members of Congress during the Moscow summit, is an invaluable resource for every American who wants to ensure, if not their own safety, at least that of their children and grandchildren.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Your Deterrent: What's at stake at the Moscow summit

  • The managing director of Ancestry.co.uk, Simon Harper, said the phone books would help people researching "late Victorian, 20th century family or social history as they provide solid evidence of where people lived during any given time in this period".

    BBC: Writer Evelyn Waugh's number is among millions online

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