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...Texas A&M researchers have discovered that the phorid fly from South America will lay eggs on the fire ants and the maggots which are hatched eat away at the ant's brains, eventually causing their heads to fall off. Someone at the university was willing to underwrite the work to solve a problem. That investment was almost certainly much less than the $1 billion a year that fire ants cost businesses in the state. (See pictures of bug cuisine...
...recession does not stop advancements in technology. It just makes companies so frightened of risk that they choose not to make the investment in the fire ant projects...
...fire ant problem never goes away. Unsolved problems in every industry cost companies money. Sometimes companies do not even know that their problems can be solved. The phorid fly is an obscure species. So is software that can analyze huge amounts of data in real time...
Expect Cheney to fire back any moment...
...need to do precisely that became even clearer on Tuesday, with the release of the annual report of the Medicare trust fund. The trustees projected that the Medicare Part A (or hospital) trust fund will become insolvent by 2017, which is two years earlier than previously estimated. (Read "The Fire This Time: Is This Health Care's Moment...