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Perhaps a visit to northeastern Chad would change their minds. As I drove out to the area in spring 2007, the first sign we were entering a dead zone was the carcass of a camel. Camels can go three weeks without water in the Sahara, so the heap of fur, hair and bleached bones was an ominous sight. We entered a mud-walled, straw-roofed village. Instead of giving the usual smiles and waves, the children ducked away. A few minutes later, we crested a rise in the road and were confronted by nine janjaweed horsemen, rifles over their shoulders...
...Poster-Remover is unexpressive. He mechanically begins to tear down poster after poster. Students flock about him like flies on a carcass, all wriggling to get a choice spot. For a moment, his face flickers with annoyance as unwashed arms graze his cheeks...
IdentiGEN's traceback system starts with a small DNA sample taken from an animal carcass while it is still intact. The sample is stored in a computer database, and from that point on, at any step in the distribution process, another sample can be taken from any product to confirm its origins. The entire process costs one half of 1% of the value of the animal, according to Cunningham. If cloned-animal DNA were made publicly available (cloners now keep DNA information proprietary), Cunningham says he could trace a single steak back to an individual cloned steer in less than...
...should be an alarm bell for all those who want to fight terror. And it's not because of the threat of suicide bombers, it is because the people are not taking interest. They know the problem will remain. You know it's like the story of the dead carcass of an animal that fell into the village well. The villagers ask the local wise man how do you purify the waters, and he says take out 40 buckets of water. Still the water was polluted, so he said take out another 40 buckets. It didn't make a difference...
...morticians are already poking at the carcass of Harvard’s political firmament, recently pronounced dead by a council of alumni of the Class of 1967. The coronary report seems to indicate a deadly tonic of apathy, greed, self-interest, and postmodern irony. But perhaps the biggest threat to Harvard’s political vibrancy isn’t lurking in the hallways of Bain Capital Group or in the sinister transmissions of Stephen Colbert. Perhaps the cause of death was not murder, but suicide. The guilty party? A group nominally committed to “engaging young people...