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...Second, imperialism pollutes the imperial nation. I grew up in Liverpool when it was one of the British Empire's great ports. Its docks were full of ships laden with palm oil and sugarcane, with liners bound for Cape Town and Colombo. You might think, to read some of imperialism's apologists, that such a familiarity with exotic climes would have bred a reverence for foreign cultures, as if every child of empire wanted to do something noble, like translate the Bhagavad Gita or teach for a year in Sierra Leone. Sadly, not so. In Britain, the imperialist adventure produced...
...mistake with nanotechnology could be very much more serious than anything we've seen before." Shand and Goldsmith have a point. As Time reported two weeks ago, ETC Group's paper included a review of available health research on nanoparticles. After studying the findings, Vyvyan Howard, pathology professor at Liverpool University, England, concluded that ultrafine particles - which can readily pass through skin and other tissues - could prove toxic should they reach vulnerable parts of the body. In part, fears of nanotech are fueled by the realization that the science is reaching a tipping point - from theoretical possibility to economic reality...
...Shopping American artist Barbara Kruger is credited with paraphrasing Descartes to say: "I shop, therefore I am." The world's favorite pastime is celebrated in the exhibition, "Shopping: a Century of Art and Consumer Culture," at Frankfurt's Schirn Kunsthalle until Dec. 1, then at Tate Liverpool from Dec. 20 to March 23. One of Kruger's pieces, two huge eyes under the legend, you love it, you dream it, you need it, you buy it, you forget it, is too big to fit in the museum, so it covers the four-story facade of the Galeria Kaufhof on Frankfurt...
Peter Kilfoyle is a member of British parliament for Liverpool Walton and former Minister of Defense under Tony Blair...
...unguents that saturated the mummy's bandages glued them in place, which meant the body was damaged as it was removed from the sarcophagus. Studying the corpse literally limb by limb, the first anatomist found nothing suspicious. More than 40 years later, however, in 1968, a University of Liverpool researcher received permission to X-ray the mummy and discovered some intriguing clues: there was a sliver of bone floating in the brain cavity and a dense area at the base of the skull that may have been a blood clot, suggesting a severe--perhaps deliberately lethal--blow to the back...