Looking for stable bets in overseas markets? First, check the rainfall totals
New research shows that too little rain -- or way too much -- leads to social unrest; irrigation doesn't help
Why is Libya exploding? Why are Iraq and Egypt always, even after many millennia, undemocratic? Why was there scarcely any looting or rioting in Japan even after the triple calamity of tsunami, earthquake and nuclear accident?
Blame the rain. Or rather, the lack of it. Egypt and Libya boil over b
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