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Keasling's next project is to begin adapting his technology to produce taxol, prostratin and maybe even new sources of energy and ways to clean up the environment. "I guess when I go to my grave, I'd like to have helped come up with solutions for some of society's most significant problems," he says. Thank goodness he never liked those pigs...
...THIS EARTH NICK BRANDT African wildlife has never looked so regal and mysterious as in Brandt's grave photographs. His elephants appear as weighty as the pyramids. His rhinos look more ancient than carbon. His apes know something we don't. Given the multitude of human disasters in africa, is it an indulgence to lose yourself in pictures that carry no hint of the wars and famines outside the frame? Not when the pictures are such powerful reminders that africa is also a magnificent--and endangered--treasure house of animal life...
...cornucopia of panels spilling over with buzzwords, a spectacle undertaken to justify comfortable existences and expense accounts. Fresh off the plane, I attended a dreadful panel on “Indigenous Women and European Men.” It started with a red-haired Englishwoman who struck a grave face and tone and peering over her grandmotherly spectacles began, “Colonizers saw the land as a passive, indigenous woman open to the penetration of European men.” Colonial historians have an enduring fondness for imagery of rape, and to satiate it, there followed half a dozen...
...announced its recommendations by mid-November, the icv pledges to present a bill on the future of the basilica directly to Congress. "We're going to dampen the festivities at least," says Bosch. Whatever happens, Spain has already begun to dismantle the remnants of Franco's legacy. Mass graves of Republican sympathizers are now being excavated by volunteer organizations like Forum for Memory; just last month a related organization, the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory, unearthed in Cantabria the shared grave of two young men who, fleeing advancing Nationalist troops in 1937, were caught and shot...
...legendary--he used to eat entire bowls of buttermilk dressing with his salads--he can persuade fellow bubbas to exercise and eat better. "I cannot completely describe just how contemptuous I was of exercise and those who engaged in it regularly," he writes in his book Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork. In May he ran a marathon...