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...issue--creating problems and worse solutions. Some entrepreneur sees a business opportunity: Let's bring in bigger monkeys to solve the problem of the smaller ones. The entrepreneur's income adds to the GDP, and society learns to coexist with the bigger problem. That's India today: brilliant entrepreneurs content to coexist with poverty and corruption...
...that matter. Researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm pooled data from 15 studies and found that eating just over an ounce of these smoked and processed delicacies each day increased the risk of developing stomach cancer from 15% to 38%. The culprit may be the high salt content of such meats, which could irritate the lining of the stomach, or perhaps the nitrate and nitrite additives, which are known to have cancer-promoting qualities...
...similar as they are in movie playback, the two platforms are very different in other areas. The PS3 thinks locally - it handles content best when it's on its hard drive, or on a disc in its drive, or on a memory card or USB keychain that's plugged in directly. The Xbox 360 is all about the network...
...Rexes and a gorilla duking it out in your living room. I can't spot the difference between Blu-ray and HD DVD movie; no one but the most finicky of videophiles could. So when looking at both game consoles as a source of high-def movie content, forget about differences in video quality and think more about your gaming preferences as well as the movies themselves, the Blu-ray and HD DVD lineups on Amazon.com or Netflix...
...president’s post at the start of the spring semester. Moore will be joined on The Crimson’s masthead by managing editor-elect Javier C. Hernandez ’08, of Eugene, Ore., and Cabot House, who will oversee the newspaper’s content. Roger R. Lee ’08 of Congers, N.Y., and Quincy House, will serve as business manager. The paper’s outgoing editors elected their successors early Friday morning, and the president of the 133rd Guard, William C. Marra ’07, announced the results to the staff...