Word: ante
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...Texas A&M researchers have discovered that the phorid fly from South America will lay eggs on the fire ants and the maggots which are hatched eat away at the ant's brains, eventually causing their heads to fall off. Someone at the university was willing to underwrite the work to solve a problem. That investment was almost certainly much less than the $1 billion a year that fire ants cost businesses in the state. (See pictures of bug cuisine...
...recession does not stop advancements in technology. It just makes companies so frightened of risk that they choose not to make the investment in the fire ant projects...
...fire ant problem never goes away. Unsolved problems in every industry cost companies money. Sometimes companies do not even know that their problems can be solved. The phorid fly is an obscure species. So is software that can analyze huge amounts of data in real time...
...Cold War-era questions, like how many missiles there are in Siberia. What the U.S. needed after Sept. 11, Andrus argued, was something that could handle rapidly changing, complicated threats. Intelligence organizations needed to become complex and adaptive, driven to judgments by bottom-up collaboration, like financial markets or ant colonies - or Wikipedia. (See the top 10 Secret Service code names...
...have the vocation of falling out with those who have been our friends historically, and who have done us great favors," explained Claude Guéant, Sarkozy's chief of staff, to Le Monde ahead of the Central Africa visit. "To count, France must speak to everyone, and she can do that more than other nations...