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...world needs ecosystems, but apparently not every ecosystem, everywhere. The genius of the market economy is that it enables a nation to buy from other places or re-create through technology some of the benefits once derived from the local habitat. The genius of nature is that ecosystems can absorb shocks and sustain damage and still rebound...
...much more--the average healthy male has 260 to 1,000 nanograms of testosterone per deciliter of blood plasma. For women the range is 15 to 70. But because men differ on how effectively their bodies process the substance--for instance, some have more receptors around their body that absorb it--a man on the low end of the normal range can still have all the testosterone he needs for normal sex drive and other benefits. In healthy men, levels also vary during the day, peaking around 8 a.m., which is why men commonly awaken in a state of sexual...
...travels along the beam, picking up momentum from the radio waves. This scheme works beautifully in theory, but there are some practical difficulties to be overcome. The transmitter has to be gigantic and must focus the energy of the beam on the fishnet as it accelerates. The fishnet must absorb only a tiny fraction of the radio waves to avoid being vaporized. The probe must carry instruments to collect information and transmit signals back to earth, and those instruments must weigh less than an ounce. There are enough problems here to keep engineers busy for several centuries...
...three-fourths of the $1.6 billion would pay for military hardware and training, including 30 top-of-the-line Blackhawk helicopters. The rest would be economic and law-enforcement assistance, which White House officials have ordered U.S. aid agencies to pump into Colombia as fast as its government can absorb the dollars. All that money would be used to battle not only the drug traffickers but also the guerrillas who are aligned with them and who have waged a 35-year insurgency against the government. What's more, U.S. officials say privately that the $1.6 billion would be just...
Gomez and Steinfeld aren't superior to this stupidity--nothing smug about them, partly because as virtual unknowns, they're eager to please. On the other hand, there's a definite limit to the number of moron jokes we can absorb in 100 minutes, and their movie exceeds it. These guys have a nice gift for sly, sidelong comic glances. One appreciates the Coke machine that stands, uncommented upon, in the middle of the funeral parlor. One would not entirely mind seeing the dinner-theater production of Oh! Calcutta! they casually mention. But they need to be as smart...