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...World Toilet Summit and Expo is like the Star Trek Convention of the waste management and sanitation world. Toilets on show run the gamut from a cardboard box complete with a hole, plastic bag and pouch of waterless magic pathogen-busting dust ($50), to a high-tech 'uber-toilet,' featuring an in-seat warmer/cooler, male and female water jets, an in-bowl light (why, oh why?) and a USB port so you can connect your mp3 player for your soothing tune of choice...
...Meanwhile, outside thousands of protesters had hit the streets near the meeting, shouting "Step down, Ma Ying-jeou!", throwing plastic bottles and rocks, and wearing yellow head and neck bands that read "Taiwan is My Country." The opposition Democratic Progressive Party, wary of any moves to draw closer to China, has staged protests throughout Chen's visit. Some 7000 police have been deployed to maintain order, and a couple of protestors have been injured in the chaos. On Wednesday, hundreds surrounded the hotel where Chen was dining and refused to disperse until 2AM, when Chen could finally leave. "The protests...
...describe two possible futures: one with a healthy earth but no skyscrapers or plastic bags, and one where we have ruined the world to make a profit. Which way do you currently see humanity leaning? Oh, I think it's entirely what it says in the book - it's a matter of choice. We've got two possible futures: a really horrible one and a really good one. We're going to run out of oil. It's not a renewable resource. So that will happen. Meanwhile, we are very busy in creating all kinds of new tech that might...
...enough to say you have to be good; everybody does that for about a week and then runs back to their old habits. Eventually necessity forces a change. That will happen when oil is so expensive that you can no longer afford to use it to make plastic bags out of it. And instead of that, we will use it for things we really need...
...Pentagon leadership that was developing detainee interrogation procedures. It was resurrected by Taylor's defense attorneys in their attempt to win acquittal for their client, in the apparent belief that it could provide legal cover to the acts he was accused of committing, which included electrocution of genitals, melting plastic onto a victim's flesh, pouring scalding water on a victim's hands. Instead, Judge Altonaga summarily dismissed the memo and, on Oct. 27, Taylor, an American citizen, was convicted on five counts of torture under a law known as the extraterritorial torture statute. The judge ultimately relied...