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Much also deserves to be said about the undemocratic dynamics intrinsic to capitalism. The claim that free markets march hand-in-hand with democracy obscures their basic incompatibility: Capitalism denies participatory politics, insofar as central institutions in society (corporations, workplaces, etc.) are autocratically organized. It should therefore be unsurprising that, from savage coups in Indonesia in 1965 to Chile in 1973, free-market policies have typically been imposed in brutal defiance of the popular will...

Author: By Adaner Usmani | Title: An Anti-Capitalist Primer | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

There have been so many movies and TV miniseries made from your stories and, not to be disrespectful, but some of them are stinkers. Sleepwalkers, Sometimes They Come Back and its various sequels, etc... How do you maintain quality control? Do you even try? I'd go crazy. I don't try to maintain quality control. Except I try to get good people involved. The thing is, when you put together a script, a director, and all the other variables, you never really know what's going to come out. And so you start with the idea that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Talking with Stephen King | 11/23/2007 | See Source »

Firms that sell prescription drugs and over-the-counter medicines and supplements collect revenues as high as $30 billion a year from products inspired by the traditional knowledge of indigenous communities like the Piaroa, according to biodiversity-research organizations like the Canada-based ETC Group. Researchers view jungles from South America to Southeast Asia as bountiful sources of new treatments for cancer, AIDS and other diseases. According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, more than 25% of the ingredients in cancer medicines today were either discovered in rain forests or synthesized in labs from discoveries made there. But the tribal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jungle Medicine | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...Clue!: Iron pipe, noose, candlestick, old-school revolver, color-coded costumes, etc. Make sure you get a receipt from the guy you pay to remove the corpse, though! That was Col. Mustard’s mistake...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly, Nicola C. Perlman, and Alyssa N. Wolff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: 15 Parties We Can Have | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...experiments which began in the 20th century. Only now, scientists will be able to create genes that don’t preexist in nature and will thus be more specialized.The primary issue at hand is one of safety, not ethics. A Canadian action group named Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC) has been a consistent critic of synbio research and plans to challenge Venter’s patent application. Two commonly cited risks of this research include the possibility for “bio-terror,” which is the use of new and potentially devastating bioweaponry by terrorist groups...

Author: By James M. Wilsterman | Title: New Life, New Rules | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

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