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...Lesotho now boasts its first 10-to-15-room facility equipped with negative airflow, which contains and filters air circulating through TB wards. A single such center is hardly enough, but it is a start. "It shows you it is possible," says Raviglione. And that is the most powerful lesson in TB today. The bug can adapt; if we're smart, so can we. -with reporting by Megan Lindow/Cape Town, Madhur Singh/New Delhi and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow
...they need to save and plan, storing seeds and surpluses to tide them over from season to season. We've had 10,000 years to absorb the truth that cultures that don't value THRIFT ultimately flame out and die. Apparently that isn't long enough to learn the lesson...
Nice timing. With Wall Street in tatters, this lesson in Business Failures 101 should have a built-in readership. The authors don't overintellectualize failure; they are strictly from the school of Those Who Cannot Remember the Past Are Condemned to Repeat It. They make a persuasive case that it is only by studying the (costly) mistakes that other businesses have made that executives and investors can steer clear of disaster...
...Spore has an educational side as well. Indeed, it is a biology lesson in disguise. After viewing the launch video at www.spore.com, Professor of Biological Anthropology Richard W. Wrangham said, “It looks like a wonderful way to view evolutionary theory through fun, and it might make people realize that human beings are just another species.” Given the time, Wrangham said he too would play the game...
...just supposed to trust that mortgage lenders and Wall Street types have 'learned their lesson' and will not continue to exacerbate the problem (or find ways to create new ones)? What safeguards are/will be put in place so that derivatives of the type that got this mess started will not continue to be created or traded? I think it's fair to assume that mortgage lenders and Wall Street won't make these same mistakes for another generation at least. But they will do their best to figure out new ones to make. And while bubbles and crashes will always...