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...Storm in a Cola Cup The demonstrations against high pesticide content in Coke and Pepsi are curious [Aug. 21]. Since such complaints come up only in India, one can assume that the problem lies not with the syrup concentrate but with the water used to make the soft drink. It is not the first time the Centre for Science and Environment has made such allegations. If it were serious about contamination, it would have targeted the boards supplying drinking water to billions of people rather than raising its voice against the two soda companies. The fact that Kerala's government...
...basement laboratory, brought back from space discoveries the Russians never made. But Van Allen never expected to find himself, at 44, a key figure in the cold war"s competition for prestige. He is and always has been, by inclination and intent, a 'pure" scientist ... He started being curious about cosmic rays back in the prewar days when they were considered as wildly abstruse and impractical as a study of the mating habits of sea horses or the inner structure of a grasshopper"s brain. But today he can tip back his head and look at the sky. Beyond...
...years, and he recalls taking the primary-school student to his dorm at the University of Tokyo, at the heart of Japan's 1960s political tumult. "He would be right in the middle of pacifist, anti-Sato protests," Hirasawa recalls. "He wasn't angry; just very curious. He kept asking, 'Why are those people bullying my uncle...
...Facebook face-off ended peacefully early Friday morning. The protested "News Feed" on the social networking site, which allowed users to track their friends' activities, now has an off-switch. By adjusting their privacy settings, users can limit or block friends from seeing their Facebook movements. The curious can still check their friends' profiles for updates, but they now have to do so manually...
...plain and clear that a determined human being can't find ambiguity in it. And as divisive as they are, conspiracy theories are part of the process by which Americans deal with traumatic public events like Sept. 11. Conspiracy theories form around them like scar tissue. In a curious way, they're an American form of national mourning. They'll be with us as long as we fear lone gunmen, and feel the pain of losses like the one we suffered on Sept. 11, and as long as the past, even the immediate past, is ultimately unknowable. That...