Not exact matches
This surprise supply has primarily come
from sovereign central banks: for
example, 1,500 metric tonnes
from one - time sound money nation Switzerland; 600
from France; 430
from the
United Kingdom (most at the bear market's absolute low price of around $ 255.00 / ounce; central bank «genius» for all to
see); 300
from Netherlands; 225
from Portugal; 240
from Spain; 180
from Venezuela and counting; 90
from Brazil.
Yet stocks of the domesticated honeybee have been declining in the
United States and Europe: the number of managed hives in the
United States, for
example, has dropped
from nearly 6 million in the 1940s to 2.3 million in 2008 (
see «Sting in the tale»).
If these facts are true — and they are (
see, for
example, economist Max Roser's ourworldindata.org and the data at humanprogress.org aggregated
from the World Bank, the
United Nations, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and Eurostat)-- then why the doom and gloom heaped on us by politicians and pundits on both sides of the political aisle?
The Pew report, which draws on survey responses
from 3748 AAAS members based in the
United States, also showed that perceptions differ by discipline — for
example, 48 % of earth scientists
see news coverage as important to their careers, but only 35 % of chemists do.
For
example, prior to digital distribution, horror films
from filmmakers working in countries like Japan, Spain, and Italy were traded on VHS and DVDs by American fans of the genre, including movies that never
saw an official theatrical release in the
United States.
See, for
example, Philip Connor, «Explaining the Refugee Gap: Economic Outcomes of Refugees Versus Other Immigrants», Journal of Refugee Studies, 2010; William Evans and Daniel Fitzgerald, «The Economic and Social Outcomes of Refugees in the
United States: Evidence
from the ACS», National Bureau of Economic Research working paper 23498, 2017; Miriam Potocky - Tripodi, «The Role of Social Capital in Immigrant and Refugee Economic Adaptation», Journal of Social Service Research, 2004.
Combining works of the imagination with rare
examples of actual «surreal» houses, the exhibition presents a diverse range of paintings, photographs, films, models and installation
from public and private collections in Britain, Europe, Canada and the
United States, many rarely
seen in the UK.
To
see an
example of what can come
from giving wildlife a chance, I encourage you to read Christopher Pala «s dispatch in this week's Science Times section
from a windswept point in Hawaii, just 30 miles
from Waikiki, where the first predator - proof fence in the
United States has been deployed.
You can
see for
example the plumes of carbon dioxide rising
from the heavily populated and industrialized east and west coasts of the
United States.
For
example, in 2010, lawn mowers sent an estimated 89,518 people for treatment in the
United States; home workshop power
saws, 80,688 people; and workshop manual tools, 131,762 people, according to the most recent figures available
from the Consumer Product Safety Commission.