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That's the theory, anyway. The effectiveness of cloud-seeding is still disputed, because it's difficult to say with any certainty that cloud-seeding is responsible for a storm rather than Mother Nature. But if you choose to believe in cloud-seeding, the Chinese scientists may have even overdone...
Some examples? E.R. performed an entire episode live in 1997; the camera crew caught in the background was explained away as a PBS documentary crew filming in the hospital. The same year, Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian on her sitcom Ellen, and networks even distributed special glasses around...
Christakis added that he did not want to reveal the details of his hypothesis for fear of potentially corrupting the results of the study. But he said that if there is no H1N1 epidemic, his “experiment will be a flop.”
Still, significant unforeseens remain, as history shows. Massachusetts' highly touted experiment with universal coverage has taken hits for failing to lower health-care costs. Bigby attributes this partly to high housing and labor costs and the fact that the state is home to so many pricey academic medical centers. That...
But the krazy-Kalifornia criticism is likely to continue regardless of the facts on the ground - not just because of envy, but because of ideology as well. The collapse of the Golden State provides an irresistible parable for hippie-lefty vegan politics, the failure of a quasi-Scandinavian progressive experiment...