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...workforce is educated and young?54% of Vietnam's 84 million citizens are under the age of 30. Wages are lower than they are in China's coastal cities, which compete for manufacturing jobs. The Communist Party recently installed a new government led by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, who has vowed to continue economic reforms and to tackle the country's pervasive corruption. While it's true that Vietnam's economy is still relatively small?at $53 billion last year, the country's total GDP is about half that of the Philippines?it is also vibrant, with a growing...
...rack for $100 a month, including fan rental. And ScentAir is expanding its repertoire by cooking up smells that are meant not to charm but to repel: last month it re-created the smell of burning electrical wire for a military simulation; earlier, it had dreamed up dinosaur dung for a children's museum...
...ceremony honoring achievements that “make people laugh, and then make them think.” The night’s sponsor, the science humor magazine “Annals of Improbable Research,” distributed awards for everything from research which proved that dung beetles are “finicky eaters” to an exploration of why woodpeckers do not get headaches. “I’m a true supporter of the Ig Nobels because I want to inspire the general public about science, and making it fun is a great...
...fake" or "planted," while the lack of evidence backing up the conspiracy theory is merely "proof" that the evidence is being covered up. With no structural engineers or demolition experts backing up the conspiracy nonsense, the theorizers rely instead on a cast of characters who are nuttier than squirrel dung. They make for good comedy, if nothing else. Jan Burton Toronto...
...these machines to test it in two villages, 75 kilometers apart, last year in Bangladesh. And I thought, "Wow, it's going to run on cow dung, there will be all sorts of issues. We'll send engineers, and if we can get any data..." Any data? Those machines ran flawlessly around the clock. Each village went from never seeing electricity, never having a light bulb at night, to being fully electrified. They're small villages. But they were fully electrified for nearly half year each. And the only fuel - there's no infrastructure for that either - that went into...