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...what I will really need is money and lots of it. To that end, I’m getting a leg up on my future competition by forming a political action committee (PAC)—read: “slush fund”—to cull the assets from various quasi-legal business ventures (selling fake underage IDs to middle-aged women, selling Tony Robbins motivational tapes to under-motivated people and operating the most lucrative midget-only casino this side of the Rio Grande, to name a few). This PAC, combined with sizable donations from rich...
...Speed and accurate information are critical in defeating such outbreaks, and critics say Beijing's silence has had deadly consequences. In 1997, when a previously unknown strain of avian influenza killed nine in Hong Kong, the government's swift move to quarantine patients and cull more than a million chickens was widely credited with halting the spread of the disease. The risks of an uncontrolled viral outbreak are catastrophically high: with its tens of millions of pigs, poultry and people living in close proximity, southern China has long been one of the world's most lethal breeding grounds for killer...
...eliminate the traditional editorial function. What they have done is find electronic methods of repackaging the work of human reporters and editors. Google is trying to keep the inner workings of its robo-editor secret, but I did find out it uses more than 150 different criteria to cull its story list from those 4,000 news sources. Example: a boldface headline centered at the top of a Web page is considered more relevant than a smaller one farther down the page...
...record level of applications, he added, made it difficult to cull three winners from the many nominated...
...explored?the Indian island chain harbors some of the most diverse marine life in South Asian waters. Unlike Asian reefs decimated by dynamite and cyanide fishing and eroded by toxic runoff, Andaman coral thrives. A recent Reefwatch Marine Conservation survey found that the reefs were spared the worldwide coral cull caused by the El Ni??o...