Most trading businesses in Europe have tended to gravitate to London, with its critical mass of activity and expertise, and they will continue to do so.

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For about a century now, tree planting has been the mass-participation activity.

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The pollution has turned so bad that more than 100 Utah doctors called Wednesday on authorities to immediately lower highway speed limits, curb industrial activity and make mass transit free for the rest of winter.

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The researchers found that sitting was associated with a higher death risk after controlling for factors including age, gender, smoking status, physical activity, education, body mass index, as well as living in an urban or city environment.

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The financial upsets of the past two decades, and especially the East Asian crisis of the late 1990s, have yielded a mass of new information and spurred a great deal of activity under each of these headings.

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But we are the only species to have defined a geological period by our activity something usually performed by major glaciations, mass extinction and the colossal impact of objects from outer space, like the one that defines the upper boundary of the Cretaceous.

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Regardless of what the source was for the activity, what you had was a collision of demand and capital that led to a critical mass, an explosion growth of innovation and production.

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While it may not be a mass market case, there's a lot of folks like me who want to be able to control this activity.

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