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...Conspiracy Theory" opens, appropriately, with Jerry spouting tales of Nobel prize-winning scientists having their frozen sperm stored beneath the ice skating rink in Rockefeller Center, NASA conspiring to kill the President by conducting sonic tests in orbit resulting in major earthquakes along fault lines (the President was going to be in Turkey along a fault line) and perhaps funniest of all, the government putting the metal strip in the new $100 bills as a tracking device; Jerry generously warns a female passenger that if she has any of the bills to get rid of them immediately...
...blame so much the developers and landlords because that's what the law says they can do," William B. Cunningham told the council. "It's not the developers' fault--it's your fault...
...incomprehension in Washington and the rest of the country about the world of high tech is partly the techies' own fault. What, for example, do these companies do exactly? Well, Pangea has developed some kind of software that is used to sort through all the information that's coming out about human genes, in order to speed up the development of new drugs. Or something. "Industrial Strength Bioinformatics" is the company's slogan. Its product, styled GeneWorld 2.0, "gives you the industrial-strength capacity you need when sequence data production exceeds analytical throughput." (Don't you hate it when that...
...whatever good comes from sobering up the parties is likely to be offset by returning to the bad old days of difficult divorce. An effort to repeal no-fault divorce failed in Iowa and Michigan when people realized it would be a boon to lawyers without necessarily saving marriages or protecting women from Donald Trumps trading in old models for newer ones. How many cooing couples who select covenant marriage realize that should their union turn into an icy hell, they have signed on to a financially draining, emotionally exhausting divorce process in which they must find grievous fault...
...Shanghai and Guangzhou. At Liang's old workplace, his friends sit around all day grousing, drinking tea and reading the papers until the shift whistle blows. "We call it the nonworking day," he says. "The managers are screwing things up, and they have to leave. It's not our fault there's nothing to do." During Mao's time, he says, "we would work hard because the factory would take care of us. Now if they do not pay us, we have nothing at all." Before, says Liang, "social welfare came first. Now, as long as you make money, that...