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...about its own ends, not conventional morality, status or popularity. Like love, it inspires and lifts, isn't rational and is often extravagant, and I'll take it wherever I can find it. That may be in simple fish shacks or Neapolitan pizzerias, but it's most likely to appear in luxurious temples dedicated to its worship, where its high priests present congregants with rich and fragrant offerings. Just one bite, and I'm transported. At those moments, money means nothing to me. I'm grateful to pay for a taste of the transcendent...
...government officials, let alone space-suited flu teams. In addition, the Thai government has made a special effort to educate the most vulnerable groups: a UNICEF-produced series of comic pamphlets warns rural children - who make up the majority of bird-flu cases - to stay away from chickens that appear sick. After surveillance, swift laboratory work is Step 2. Thailand's strong public-health system formed an innovative partnership with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in 2001 to launch the International Emerging Infections Program (IEIP). Under the program, Thailand has obtained advanced laboratory technology from the U.S., as well...
Snooping isn't so secret anymore in China: officials in the city of Shenzhen announced last week that two cartoon cops would soon start to appear on local Web browsers as a reminder that the police are patrolling cyberspace too. Such candor, however, did not play well with Netizens. PONDBLOG said, "China is trying to make Internet censorship palatable by putting cute faces on its online thought police." JACKARANDA derided the "Great Firewall of China," deeming the cybercops proof that "the Net can be developed and strangled all at once." But a cautious FREECASHSPACE questioned the upside of "life...
...health team can look forward to reading Andy once a month. Andy preaches the ultimate in preventive medicine. His advice on how to live a well-balanced life has won him millions of fans. And TIME readers can now send him questions on TIME.com after his columns appear; we'll pick out the best ones and then post Andy's answers on TIME.com...
...greater number of men than women are capable of extraordinary brilliance in the sciences.• “socialization and patterns of discrimination,” two separate theories arguing that men might simply prefer science more than women and that claims of gender discrimination in academia appear overstated.Much has been made of those hypotheses and their relative merits in the year since Summers and his critics brought them into national view. And the notes, which closely mirror the transcript of his remarks that was released a month later, shed scant new light on the president?...