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By following the Formatting Instructions listed below, you will locate an (online) current-event news article that addresses the question (above) that you find personally compelling. The article can be local, regional, national, or global in scope. The objective of the assignment is to identify a “news-related” source of information that reports data (e.g., individual facts, statistics, or items of information) related to your scarce-resource issue you consider to be critically-important. Be sure to consider the source of the news article and avoid non-news/blog-type posts that rely heavily on editorial comments; your news source should relate positive economic-thinking (i.e. an objective sense of what “is, was, or will be” that is based on facts) and not normative economic-thinking (i.e., a subjective sense of what “ought to be, should be” that is based on opinion or recommendation). 1. Title of the news article; name of news source; and web address (copy/pasted) 2. Author(s) 3. Write a 1-paragraph summary of what the news article is about 4. Write a 1-paragraph summary briefly explaining how the article topic relates to the fundamental concept of scarcity, as you understand it.