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...priests convene to schedule their planting dates and combat the problem of crop pests; in the plans they draw up to maintain aqueducts and police conduits; in the irrigation proposals they consider and approve, the dam proposals they reject or amend. "The religion has a temple at every node in the irrigation system," says David Sloan Wilson, professor of biology and anthropology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, N.Y. "The priests make decisions and enforce the code of both religion and irrigation...
...what I know are codes, the image of an ending,” and beyond this, he said, he must fill in the gaps. Writing is an endless process of decision-making, and the author must always be “bridging across these dark zones to the next node of light...
...NODE This is extra secure, with encryption
...more serious threat to Starbucks' plan is the competition from free wi-fi--the crazy quilt of free wireless networks springing up in San Francisco, Seattle and other high-tech cities. Starbucks customers have been known to hop on a free Internet node and bypass the store's paid service entirely. "Why pay if you don't have to?" says Kevin Lawrence, 28, a software-industry entrepreneur, who spent hours typing on his laptop but hadn't bothered to buy anything during a recent visit to a Starbucks in Manhattan...