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...evil. This levels the playing field - and the level field has fungus on it. Every tinhorn with a chemistry set becomes a potential world-historical force with more discretionary destructive power at hand than the great old monsters, from Caligula to Stalin, ever had. In the new dimension, micro-evil (the dark impulse to rape or murder, say) and macro-evil (the urge to genocide) achieve an ominous reunion in any bid for the apocalyptic gesture. That's the real evil that is going around...
...talking about beer? The German beer industry is one of the ways in which he has expanded his theory in the past seven years. “We love German beer,” he said, because it is delicious and unique. As Diamond explains, German beer is generally micro-brewed, and most of it is consumed within twenty miles of where it was produced. This system is extremely inefficient, so German beer is both expensive and infrequently exported (American beer, on the other hand, is produced on a much larger scale). Despite its superior reputation, such German beer...
Although Wal-Mart's stores may look identical, the company is pinning some of its growth prospects on the idea that what goes into them won't be. Wal-Mart's next competitive weapon is advanced data mining, which it will use to forecast, replenish and merchandise on a micro scale. By analyzing years' worth of sales data--and then cranking in variables such as the weather and school schedules--the system could predict the optimal number of cases of Gatorade, in what flavors and sizes, a store in Laredo, Texas, should have on hand the Friday before Labor...
...past two years, Kmart filed for bankruptcy, and Ames and Bradlees, once U.S. powerhouses, closed up shop. Wal-Mart is quickly adding scalps in the grocery industry too. Wal-Mart's next competitive weapon is advanced data mining, which it will use to forecast, replenish and merchandise on a micro scale, so that even stores close to one another could have substantially different offerings. By analyzing years' worth of sales data - and then cranking in variables such as the weather and school schedules - the system could predict the optimal number of cases of Lucozade, in what flavors and sizes...
...forms. But astronomers say it was once covered in rivers, lakes and possibly oceans; NASA 's Mars Odyssey satellite, currently in orbit around the planet, has detected huge quantities of ice just a few feet below the surface. Beagle will search for evidence that these areas have supported extremophiles, micro-organisms living deep underground or in extremes of heat, pressure or toxicity, that represent a kind of rock-bottom definition of a living form. Many examples of these have been studied on Earth, including recent samples found 4 km beneath the surface, in a South African mine. One suggestion...