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Escaping the wealth gap can mean fleeing hometowns
2014-11-10 19:12:53| Automakers - Topix.net
This Illinois city already was struggling when Tara Holycross and her friends were kids riding their bikes to Custard Cup, swimming at the park district pool and hanging out in the Wendy's parking lot. Manufacturers that provided thousands of well-paying, middle class jobs - General Motors, General Electric, Hyster - were closing.
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Monaco real estate market attracts investors escaping stricter tax policies
2014-08-21 13:53:44| Real Estate - Topix.net
Everyone wants a piece of Monaco's property market , and skyrocketing property values are not stopping investors from snapping up properties in this tiny country in the French Riviera, several reports said.
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Climate change is preventing ocean heat from escaping in Antarctica: McGill study
2014-03-02 20:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CTV: A new discovery by scientists at McGill University suggests that heat from the depths of the ocean is being trapped under the Antarctic ice shelf -- all the result of climate change. In the 1970s, researchers in Antarctica observed an open body of water the size of New Zealand within an ice pack in the Southern Ocean's Weddell Sea. Until now, they believed the phenomenon, known as the Weddell polynya, to be a rare occurrence. But researchers at McGill say that the polynya in Antarctica has...
Japan close to escaping deflation
2013-12-27 08:01:40| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Japanese consumer prices rise at the fastest pace in five years, showing government policies to end its deflation problem may be taking effect.
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Twice as Much Methane Escaping Arctic Seafloor
2013-11-24 21:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: The Arctic methane time bomb is bigger than scientists once thought and primed to blow, according to a study published today (Nov. 24) in the journal Nature Geoscience. About 17 teragrams of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, escapes each year from a broad, shallow underwater platform called the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, said Natalia Shakova, lead study author and a biogeochemist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. A teragram is equal to about 1.1 million tons; the world emits about 500 million...
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