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Sea level rise is caused primarily by two factors related to global warming: the added water from melting ice sheets and glaciers and the expansion of seawater as it warms. The first graph tracks the change in sea level since as observed by satellites. The second graph, derived from coastal tide gauge and satellite data, shows how much sea level changed from about to These items are displayed at the time they were affecting sea level.

Register here for free. Once logged in, click the "download data" button on this page to access the data. Results: After matching women in the two groups, it became clear that women who terminated for fetal anomalies were significantly older than women in the comparison group, and age was inversely correlated with intensity of grief.

Therefore, age was covaried in comparing the grief responses of women in the two groups. Neither statistically significant nor clinically meaningful differences were found in symptomatology between the groups. Conclusions: Women who terminate pregnancies for fetal anomalies experience grief as intense as those who experience spontaneous perinatal loss, and they may require similar clinical management. In , the Christian Science Monitor wrote of an Arkansas town that it "would collapse, some said, like so many NAFTA ghost towns that lost needle-trade and manufacturing jobs to places such as Sri Lanka or Honduras.

The deal "initiated a new generation of trade agreements in the Western Hemisphere and other parts of the world," the CRS writes, so that "NAFTA" has understandably become shorthand for 20 years of broad diplomatic, political, and commercial consensus that free trade is generally a good thing.

The supercomputers of the s boasted a fraction of the processing power of today's smartphones, and the internet was not yet fully commercialized when NAFTA was signed. Real U. Both of these trends are largely due to automation. The CRS quotes Hanson, who puts technology second behind China in terms of employment impacts since NAFTA, he says, is "far less important. The tech bubble's bust put a dent in growth. The September 11 attacks led to a crackdown on border crossings, particularly between the U.

In a Foreign Affairs article, Michael Wilson, Canada's minister of international trade from to , wrote that same-day crossings from the U. Finally, the financial crisis had a profound impact on the global economy, making it difficult to pinpoint one trade deal's effect.

Outside of particular industries, where the effect is still not entirely clear-cut, NAFTA had a little obvious impact on North American economies. That it is now in danger of being scrapped probably has little to do with its own merits or flaws, and much more to do with automation, China's rise, and the political fallout from September 11 and the financial crisis. The deal was signed in November and ratified by all three countries as of March Some of the most important provisions under the deal include:.

The three leaders also added a clause to the deal that states it expires after 16 years. The three nations will also review the deal every six years, at which point they can decide whether they wish to extend the deal or not. Office of the United States Trade Representative. United States Congress. Government of Canada. Federal Reserve Bank of St. United States Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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