EDITORIAL: Unintended Consequences
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By Victoria Advocate, Texas  Dec. 16--U.S. government bureaucrats introduced the Chinese tallow tree along the Texas Gulf Coast around 1900 for a productive reason. The native Asian species produces wax-covered seeds that experts hoped could be turned into a moneymaking agricultural crop.
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There's a new twist to a controversy that has been roiling the political waters for more than three years.
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By John Weiss, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Jun.
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 2--Imagine living the same day again and again and again.   Fortunately this scenario doesn't happen in real life.
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Extreme weather, drought and spreading disease are on the horizon if something isn't done to rein in the human impact on the environment, a new study says. By the Associated Press.
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Oddly enough, good news can be bad, and vice versa.
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Out of death may come a rebirth. The alternative is much more likely to happen. And if it does the consequence will be a living hell that will go on and on and on.
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It's not just states that pay for unfunded federal mandates.
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Sometimes what we think is true doesn't measure up to the facts. The outdoors is full of conventional wisdom that was passed around the campfire then passed down from one generation to the next. Some of this hand-me-down knowledge is accepted as fact, even when it shouldn't be.
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Watch out when litigation trumps innovation.
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Two new papers examine the causes and effects of this Augustâs unwinding in the financial markets.
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One Foolish contributor holds himself accountable.
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It may not look monumental. But the fact that it's happening is significant.
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Changes at The Journal: movable deadlines and a new taste for models.
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How an accidental oasis in the Mexican desert sank Arizona's $250 million desalination plant. A case study in the law of unintended consequences. By Jeff Howe from Wired magazine.
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The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Wednesday, Sept.
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NEW YORK  - Unintentional deaths due to drug poisoning -- primarily with prescription drugs -- increased by 68 percent between 1999 and 2004, and is second only to motor vehicle crashes as a cause of death from unintentional injury in the US, investigators at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.