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...sand, on glass and so on. Whenever the Master Chief fires his weapon --he tends to do that a lot--his gun ejects a shiny, jingling shell casing. "We actually are insane," the engineer says, "because we track the impact of each shell casing on each surface. Literally. We ought to be locked...
...education is the ultimate goal, say critics, then Lucy ought not leave her homeland; her grand North American tour will only serve to put the brakes on research. "Scientists who use Lucy for comparative studies will definitely be affected negatively by [her] absence, and I am one of them," says Ethiopian paleontologist Zeresenay Alemseged of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. "Six years is really too long!" Without "a compelling national interest" and "unique and exceptional benefits," Lucy - and, indeed, all similarly rare and valuable objects - should stay home, Alemseged says. If she absolutely...
Michael Vick, an NFL quarterback, battled the Bears and the Lions rather than actual bears and lions--a seemingly simple step up in terms of civilization but one for which Vick ought to have been deeply thankful. Along with his "netting" license, he stood to gain $100 million or more. He risked sprains and bruises instead of severed arteries and a crushed skull. His career might be measured in decades rather than hours...
...good points. Perfect consistency may be too much to expect, however, from our veneer of civilization. The Vick case isn't about children or farming; it is about suffering and death as entertainment. A modern gladiator, of all people, ought to know what's wrong with that...
...rescuers had to move very slowly, shoring up the walls and ceilings as best they could - an unconscionable situation, says McAteer. "If we cannot get to miners in a faster, quicker and safer way then we ought not to be engaging in mining where the risks are so great. We should not permit mining at that level of risk." Indeed, it was the long delay in getting to miners that caused 12 deaths in the Sago coal mine disaster in January 2006. In that case, there was no collapse, but rather an explosion in the West Virginia mine. If those...