WASHINGTON: Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years.

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Where’s the Dorothy Hamill wedge, or just a wholesome ponytail?

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In this disturbing extract from Eating Animals, the novelist reveals the unpalatable truth about factory-farmed poultry Everyone has a mental image of a farm, and to most it probably includes fields, barns, tractors and animals, or at least one of the above.

Political pressure is growing to make big businesses pay for the damage they cause to the environment Political pressure is mounting to make businesses pay for the damage they cause to the environment, and the latest UN study assessing the impact of the world’s biggest companies is almost certainly the first stage in a concerted campaign to calculate how much damage is caused, what it is worth and ultimately how it can be stopped. Another report due later this year, The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, led by the economist and UN special adviser Pavan Sukhdev, will be another significant step towards this goal. Sukhdev has already warned that damage to the environment will cause the global economy to decline by 7% by the middle of the century if it is not stopped.