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...have discovered that the phorid fly from South America will lay eggs on the fire ants and the maggots which are hatched eat away at the ant's brains, eventually causing their heads to fall off. Someone at the university was willing to underwrite the work to solve a problem. That investment was almost certainly much less than the $1 billion a year that fire ants cost businesses in the state. (See pictures of bug cuisine...
...fire ant problem never goes away. Unsolved problems in every industry cost companies money. Sometimes companies do not even know that their problems can be solved. The phorid fly is an obscure species. So is software that can analyze huge amounts of data in real time...
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...citizens. The private cost of public poverty cuts to the heart of what makes us a great nation, the “Shining City on the Hill” so dear to disciples of Ronald Reagan. President Reagan was fond of saying that “government is the problem.” If nothing else good emerges from these next few months in states like California, at least the facile rhetoric of “government is the problem” and “starve the beast” will finally, a generation after Reagan, have lost...
...onscreen clumsiness is far from Brown's only problem. The expense claims rumpus couldn't have come at a worse time for the Prime Minister. The country's economy - Brown's ticket into Downing Street two years ago after a largely successful decade as finance minister - has slid into reverse. Success confronting problems on the global stage, most recently at April's productive G-20 summit in London, has sharpened criticism that he's lacking an agenda at home. (When an e-mail discussing smears against senior Conservatives, written by one of Brown's close aides, surfaced days after...