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China Meteorological Administration: Climate Adaptation More Realistic and Urgent than Mitigation for Food Security

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While CMA has observed the effects of climate change producing “some favorable factors to grain production in parts of China”, such as increased warming in the colder high latitudes, warming is expected to reduce the country’s overall food production. Tags: Brief. The drought situation in China in early February 2009.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The architecture goes back to the TX-2, built with 32 program counters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratories in the late 1950s. When I asked him how he got one, he told me that he went around to the various laboratories, collected parts that people owed him, and put it together himself.”

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