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...doesn't take a pharmaceutical marketing manager to figure out the potential here. Excess stomach acid causes great misery in millions of human beings. Perhaps the frog secreted a compound that could help chemists develop a new drug to relieve some human stomach ailments. Maybe so, but we'll never know. The Australian gastric-brooding frog went extinct in 1980, long before a drug company could uncover its secret...
Time and again, we find that plants and animals make strange molecules that chemists would never devise in their wildest dreams (and chemists do dream of chemicals in their wildest dreams). For example, researchers could not have invented the anticancer compound taxol, taken from the Pacific yew tree. It is too fiendishly complex a chemical structure, says natural-products chemist Gordon Cragg, of the U.S. National Cancer Institute...
What we are doing is, quite frankly, stupid. In the U.S., in the year 2000, when we decide that an individual has committed a crime we lock him inside a room, a compound of buildings for some length of time. Though men used to comprise the vast majority of the prison population, women are now the fastest growing group of prisoners.) He will have minimal contact with members of his family and his community. His living environment will be chaotic, overcrowded, noisy, brutal. Typically, he will not be educated--though more than half of all prisoners are functionally illiterate, only...
...Joseph and Nereciana, their relationship was a reprieve, a warm place in the heart of this darkness. And even when Tanzanian troops surrounded the camp, launched tear gas into the compound and ordered the refugees onto the roads back to Rwanda, Joseph and Nereciana, holding hands as two links in a 40-mile chain of humanity, could go with hope, believing--despite rumors that Tutsi were waiting at the other end of the Rusumo bridge over the Kageva River to castrate returning Hutu males--that God would watch over them and return them to safety. There were some positive signs...
...stroke of the dream-maker's genius that the attorney general in this religious passion play is the same Public Official whose minions once burned down a compound of believers in Texas, incinerating a number of the faithful. So the attorney general, her eyes behind bottle-bottom glasses looking like enormous, startled fish in an aquarium, proceeds with the anguished metaphysical doubt of one who has seen the Fire. What is the Law of mere Caesar in the face of Faith and Passion...