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...statistics on population growth and hunger are disturbing. Last year the world's population reached 6 billion. And by 2050, the U.N. estimates, it will probably near 9 billion. Almost all that growth will occur in developing countries. At the same time, the world's available cultivable land per person is declining. Arable land has declined steadily since 1960 and will decrease by half over the next 50 years, according to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA...
...Beach Boys and Vietnam. You've gritted your teeth as you endured the preening, self-congratulatory smugness that leads Ken Dychtwald, a gerontologist who has lately made his living warning about the coming boomer bust, to say, "Boomers feel superior to the younger generations. It wouldn't even occur to boomers...
...everyone found this argument convincing. (Surely birds had important things to remember too.) When neurogenesis was found to occur in people, the rationalizations began to take the tone of special pleading: there was no evidence that the new brain cells had anything to do with memory or that they did anything...
...decent person looked forward to World War II either. But I believe the campaign need not occur, at least not in the way we dread...
...television reports diagnoses health coverage as inadequate. Among the shortcomings: 85% of the stories used statistics that exaggerated a drug's benefit. (A report might say, for example, that an osteoporosis drug can reduce the risk of hip fractures by 50%, but not say that without it fractures occur in only 2 out of 100 people.) More than half the coverage also failed to mention harmful side effects. Omitted too was other important info, like financial ties between researchers and drug companies. Implicit message: quiz those doctors harder...