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European politics next year, meanwhile, will be consumed by the Brexit negotiations.
On September 19, the French researcher Gilles-Eric Séralini attempted to fuel public opposition to genetically modified foods by showing the public how GM corn, with and without the pesticide Roundup, caused huge tumors and early death in 200 rats that had consumed it over two years.
But the public saw only pictures of tumorous rats that had consumed GM corn and Roundup.
This has apparently consumed virtually all of their attention.
In 2015, HFO accounted for nearly 60% of the marine fuel consumed by ships operating in the Arctic.
Of course, television can be nice when consumed in small doses and with discernment.
This is forecast to rise to 3.5 billion bushels in the coming 2007-2008 marketing year, and more than 70 new ethanol plants are under construction, which will double the amount of maize consumed for ethanol production.
For example, the genes associated with digestion of lactose are more prevalent in populations that have traditionally bred cattle and consumed milk.
Saudi Arabia, the source of one in nine barrels of oil consumed globally, is not just a linchpin of the global economy; its government’s stability is crucial to the international order.
With the Middle East already consumed by a maelstrom of sectarian conflict, the last thing the region needs is another war centered around Lebanon.
More than 80 million barrels are produced (and consumed) daily, and a large part of that output is traded internationally.
In a trial by a British pharmacy chain (which, admittedly, used a small sample), the test reduced the number of antibiotics consumed by nearly 60%.
Indeed, when it comes to workers dedicated to our diets, we can add some of the 4% of the labor force who, working as nurses, pharmacists, and educators, help us solve problems resulting from having consumed too many calories or the wrong kinds of nutrients.
The United Kingdom is consumed and divided by Brexit.
Two-thirds of electricity generation, and nearly 95% of the energy consumed by the world’s transport systems, comes from fossil fuels.
To the extent that we have consumed and borrowed now in anticipation of higher income, disappointment is in store.
Bangladesh Goes TalibanIs Bangladesh headed into the black hole that consumed Afghanistan under the Taliban?
A few months before the landmark building was to be completed in 2009, officials at the network conducted an unauthorized fireworks display, sparking a fire that consumed a smaller building in the complex, a wedge-shaped tower that Beijing’s residents had nicknamed the Termite’s Nest.
As the tradable part of the global economy (goods and services that can be produced in one country and consumed in another) expands, competition for economic activity and jobs broadens.
A Strategic Rallying Cry for EuropeMADRID – At the end of June, Greece was hurtling toward implosion and the European Union was consumed by an increasingly vicious internal debate over migration.
The two conflicts have claimed more than 6,000 American lives, cost more than $1 trillion, and consumed countless hours for two presidents and their senior staff.
Nonetheless, with Syria consumed in civil war and the wider Middle East already unsteady, a ceasefire is essential both for saving lives and preserving today’s uneasy regional peace.
If today’s higher incomes are consumed and tomorrow’s incomes decline (which is likely if the economy slows), middle-class households with no savings buffer could easily slip back into poverty.
Covering this drop in reserves – more than half of gas reserves and a fifth of oil reserves have been consumed – with imports implies an annual cost of more than $300 billion.
Many of these fish are consumed indirectly – ground up and fed to factory-farmed chicken or fish.
Barely 7% of global rice output is traded internationally, because much of it is consumed where it is produced – in Asia.
Now that the potential for “Brexit” has become real, they are increasingly consumed by its implications.
The bears, who have been predicting the Chinese economy’s downfall, are now consumed with schadenfreude.
More importantly, the piglets that consumed the modified corn achieved a greater final weight, a measure of overall health, despite no difference in feed intake between the two groups.
Indeed, as a result of official policy in the US and Europe, including aggressive production targets, biofuel consumed more than 6.5% of global grain output and 8% of the world’s vegetable oil in 2010, up from 2% of grain supplies and virtually no vegetable oil in 2004.
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