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...ignore some problems. With young French so frustrated and angry, it's little wonder that the new protest movement is growing in popularity. "We had little choice but to step into that void and get something done ourselves, because it was clear we were going to be left to rot as these older forces focused on their usual agendas," Bayou says. While unions are the movement's natural allies, organized labor is not the answer: "Unions represent less than 5% of the workforce, and average member age is over 50. And, unlike us, they tend to be morose, boring, preachy...
...just drowned. While the identity of the culprits is still not known, four police officials are now facing trial for failing to follow the correct investigative procedures and conspiring to destroy evidence. Their mishandling of the case appears to many in India as a symptom of a far greater rot...
...McLaughlin and Allaire's - the nonprofit Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, for example, has pledged $8.5 million to study the impact of video games on everything from Alzheimer's disease to driving skills - there is little existing evidence that gaming, which is widely dismissed as an elaborate form of mind rot, really holds any potential to slow the effects of aging. "I think it is silly for someone to run out and buy a game with the hope that it is going to help them age better. There is no proof that it is going to be effective," says Columbia University...
...charming, but the carriage is grimy and the trackside views uninspiring. Yet Ayutthaya provides an eye-cleansing surplus of green after days in Bangkok's concrete maze (at admission prices that, while annoyingly higher for foreigners, are still minimal by world standards). Its sculptures and chedi ooze grandeur, not rot. And the Chao Sam Phraya leads the most impressive array of museums found in the country - worth much more than a day. Get a crack at meditation upon the ages: Ayutthaya is a mini-Angkor with one-tenth the crowds...
...When you reached the summit, you told reporters via radio that you "felt dreadful." What was wrong? The problems are too numerous to put your finger on. There is something called crotch rot [a fungal infection of the groin region], which is very painful. Luckily there's a cream for everything...