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...height, depth and width - is managed using a timeshare system similar to Zipcars and NetJets. Instead of having permanent use of a specific compartment, you are simply renting the space when a package is waiting for you. As soon as you retrieve the parcel, the access code is changed and the compartment is turned over to whoever needs it next. "We're trying to bring down the cost by timesharing it," says IdentiCert co-founder Jorge Calzada...
...politics in South Africa is increasingly consumed by the chance of Zuma becoming President - and discussion of who might stop him. The prospect of a Zuma presidency fills South Africa's élite with dread. He is the target of the country's most syndicated cartoon strip, Da Zuma Code, which depicts him as a ruthless dunderhead. Editorials and letters in the middle-class press paint Zuma as a potential African strongman in the mold of so much of postcolonial Africa to the north, with some white commentators advising selling up and leaving should he take power. In a widely...
What they found were two new genes, IL2 and IL7, which code for receptors for interleukin - the proteins that regulate how T cells work in the body. People with certain forms of these genes have a 20% increased risk of developing MS. It is not, however, a defective or mutated form of the genes that causes MS; rather, it's certain forms of the genes, known as variants, that increase risk. The etiology of MS is complicated and appears to involve many genes, so the next challenge will be to figure out precisely what role these two new genetic variants...
...high failure rate? One reason, Williams suggests, is the Pashtun social code of Pashtunwali, which values "acts of martial valor" and revenge. Driven by this code Afghan suicide bombers are more likely to go after hard military targets rather than softer targets such as markets or restaurants as happens in Iraq. The deadliest bombings in Afghanistan over the past two years have been the work of Arabs, not Afghans...
...continue to disagree with the allegations that Mark Zuckerberg stole any ideas or code to build Facebook,” the statement reads...