This is the digital edition of the March 2009 issue of the  Scientific American Magazine published in the "Special Editions / Earth 3.0" series.

From the Contents
• Top 10 Myths about Sustainability
• How 2009 Will Make or Break Obama's CO₂ Strategy
• Investor John Doerr's Plan for a Green Boom

Applied Linguistics publishes research into language with relevance to real world problems.

Over the next couple of years, politicians will have to perform a difficult policy U-turn; for, in the long term, they need flexible labour markets. That will mean abolishing job-subsidy programmes, taking away protected workers’ privileges and making it easier for businesses to restructure by laying people off. Countries such as Japan, with two-tier workforces in which an army of temporary workers with few protections toil alongside mollycoddled folk with many, will need to narrow that disparity by making the latter easier to fire.

The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by "The Economist Newspaper Ltd" and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843.
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