Conic bundles that are not birational to numerical Calabi--Yau pairs
  Let $X$ be a general conic bundle over the projective plane with branch curve of degree at least 19. We prove that there is no normal projective variety $Y$ that is birational to $X$ and such that some multiple of its anticanonical divisor is effective. We also give such examples for 2-dimensional conic bundles defined over a number field. 
J\'anos Koll\'ar (Princeton Univ)
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