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... of its shortage of water, China now imports 70 percent of its soybeans and increasing amounts of its corn from the United States, Brazil and Argentina. Intensified farming is also causing other water problems. MINDI SCHNEIDER: Agriculture is the number one water polluter in China. And part of that is ...
... would say that, in the short run, if you cut taxes -- if you raise taxes and cut spending during a recession, you're going to make the economy worse. So, the only argument for it is the one that he made, that there's no other alternative. But they do ...
... a declinist. He views America as one of equals around the world. We're not the same as Portugal; we're not the same as Argentina. GWEN IFILL: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich also joined the chorus. NEWT GINGRICH, (R) presidential candidate: The Obama administration is an anti-jobs, anti ...
... an effective way. There's a way of solving this problem that doesn't require any big radical changes. What it does require is everybody make some sacrifices. And we make these changes in a balanced way," the president said. "So far at least in the conversations that I've ...
... per thousand to 37 parts per thousand. “So there’s a very small range of variation of salinity,” Lagerloef said. “That means we have to make a very, very precise measurement with this radiometer.” More than a year ago, the European Space Agency launched a satellite called Soil Moisture and ...
... while they may not be as pretty to watch as the -- as the legendary teams of yore, they will probably be more difficult to beat. Argentina has, you know, a huge layer of melodrama cursing through the team. They have the M&M boys, Lionel Messi, the world's ...
In addition to my work at the PBS NewsHour, I've been the host of a program produced by Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network, HITN. It's called "Destination Casa Blanca," and bills itself as "the Latino Voice in Politics." Each week, I'll be posting a blog on that week's program, cross-posted at HITN.TV, the Huffington Post,...
With Brazil's global status on the rise, the United States is re-evaluating its approach to Latin American policy. Margaret Warner reports on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's trip to several South American nations.
More than 700 people are dead after one of the most powerful earthquakes in more than a century hit Chile on Saturday. Since then, troops and police have cracked down on curfew violations in an effort to stop violence and looting. Gwen Ifill speaks with GlobalPost's Pascale Bonnefoy in Santiago for more.
In an election overshadowed by the country's recent political upheaval, Hondurans voted on Sunday to make conservative rancher Porfirio Lobo their next president.
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