And then something very dramatic happened.

Global problems have declined dramatically relative to the resources available to tackle them.

It can take a volcanic explosion, or a dramatic lowering of sea levels, to release this carbon back into the air, often after millions of years.

The result would be floods, drought, dramatically reduced food production, and a great loss of our precious biodiversity.

There was a traffic jam and a crowd of people gathered as if it were the location of some spectacular accident, or the sudden sighting of a visiting pop star.

And then, abandoning all our gear, we were forced to ride out in the middle of the night, in a quite dramatic scene.

So when you look at this chart right over here the most obvious thing and it actually pops out from this top line right here, their public debt is growing at a dramatic level and their debt to GDP...this is actually the more relevant thing because you might have a huge amount of debt but if your GDP, if the productivity of the country is high, that might not be that big of a problem.

Some of my friends have fallen under them.

So they just started spreading this on the land around, and the combination of that and the elevated humidity had quite a dramatic effect on the local area.

According to some estimates, Russia could increase its arable area by 10 million hectares, and its crop yields by 250 , thereby boosting grain exports dramatically.

So, the average age of a person in Second Life is 32, however, the use of Second Life increases dramatically as your physical age increases.

Failure to recognize this point can have significant consequences. As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

In a dramatic reversal, Musharraf s minister of religious affairs, the son of former dictator General Zia ul Haq, promised to rebuild damaged mosques and even symbolically laid the first stone at one construction site.

There is a dramatic discrepancy between the courage and tenacity of the demonstrators and fighters in Homs, Idlib, and Deraa, and the Syrian National Front, whose people and factions have failed to formulate a coherent political program, build an identity, and obtain name and face recognition.

At this time a dramatic shift in climate occurred, causing a significant drop in precipitation in the Titicaca Basin, believed by archaeologists to have been on the scale of a major drought.

Mr. Arthur (Barbados) Today we gather, as a family of nations, to take stock of the progress that has been made in fulfilling the commitment that was given as part of our celebration of the start of a new century, to bring about a dramatic improvement in the human condition everywhere.