A prosecutor in Los Angeles writes about an article in the Los Angeles Times which describes blacks worrying that people will think racism is dead just because Barack Obama was elected president.

            Researchers found that carbon dioxide emissions from soils were lower than previsouly assumed. The findings are significant because soils are by far the world's largest source of carbon dioxide, producing 10 times more carbon dioxide each year than all the carbon dioxide emissions from human activities combined. Small changes in how carbon emissions from soils are estimated, therefore, can have a large impact.