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...bike to work at Google, where everything is new and cheerful. But I come back to what sometimes feels like an abandoned village left to rot away. The interns have brought it to light. We have created a community for ourselves that is constantly alive and vibrant. But in the winter, when we are gone and that light has gone away, I hope the casualty count is down, the soldiers are home, and color and life have returned permanently to this ghost town I have chosen to call home for the summer...
...shelf there are also an Ebert novel, Behind the Phantom's Mask (begun as a weekly newspaper serial); a travel book, Perfect London Walk, written with Daniel Curley; The Computer Insectiary: A Field Guide to Viruses, Bugs, Worms, Trojan Horses, and Other Stuff That Will Eat Your Programs and Rot Your Brain, co-authored with John Kratz; and at least five other books to which Roger has penned introductions. There's no writer's block for this perpetual scribe; he's never missed a deadline. I'll bet that if Roger had written this tribute, he would have finished...
...behind a hedge or a pile of bricks. Senior Iraqi police officials report that militants hide bombs in human cadavers, dumping them on the street and detonating them when a military or police patrol stops for an inspection. "They know that we can't just leave a body to rot in the street," a police official says. "They are counting on us to do the right thing, then hit us when...
...child abuse and parental stress receive more sympathetic attention in the Japanese media, there's hope that the country may be able halt this growing social rot. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has run on a platform of restoring Japan's traditional values - the right kind of rhetoric if he can actually help reknit Japan's broken families. Saimura notes that the health ministry just began funding a new service that will dispatch volunteers to visit the homes of new parents and provide support if they're struggling. The program is tragically too late for some children, but it sure beats...
...both companies are alert to historic opportunity--otherwise known as China. The Chinese have awakened to the ongoing train wreck between highly polluted rivers and aquifers and booming cities. "Every year, there are 20 million new urban Chinese," says Frérot. "The authorities have decided to commit as quickly as possible to improving their water and wastewater infrastructures." Veolia has 19 joint ventures in China, and Frérot says the company's short-term prospects there "look better than they do in the U.S." Suez has 21 ventures there after signing a deal to distribute water in Chongqing, China...