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...happened and we're already dead. ... I say, "Let's assume we're already gone, but now having cleared us away, we get to see what happens next." ... We get to see how nature would deal without us heaping more stuff on it every day, including stuff that we build and pump up our chimneys, and how it would deal with all the stuff we left behind. Part of that is fun - [seeing] what it takes for New York City to turn back into a forest. And the other part is all the toxins, poisons, carbon dioxides - how long would...
While struggling to build the new infrastructure, educators must also contend with Afghanistan's old demons: the Taliban is making a comeback in several provinces and reimposing its rules. In little over a year, 130 schools have been burned, 105 students and teachers killed and 307 schools closed down because of security concerns. Many of those schools were for girls, and most of them were in the southern provinces, where a Taliban-driven insurgency has made it nearly impossible to secure the schools. But the violence is creeping closer to the capital. In June 2007, two gunmen on a motorcycle...
...heart is a beautiful organ, and it's not one that I thought I'd ever be able to build in a dish.' DORIS A. TAYLOR, head of a University of Minnesota research team, on its ability to create a beating rat heart...
...beings make a terrible fuss about a lot of things but none more than romance. Eating and drinking are just as important for keeping the species going-more so actually, since a celibate person can at least continue living but a starving person can't. Yet while we may build whole institutions around the simple ritual of eating, it never turns us flat-out nuts. Romance does. "People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms for love," says Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University and something of the Queen Mum of romance research. "They live for love, die for love, kill...
...could potentially figure out the most appropriate medication for each person, because it might not be the same for everyone,” said senior author of the study and professor at the University of Michigan, Goncalo R. Abecasis. He said there is potential to use the genes to build a specific genetic lipid profile for each person...