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...does this happen on a large scale? It's food archaeology, but it's a way to preserve and transfer culture. I'm often asked about the "last bottle of Coke in the desert" - these disappearing artisanal foods - and artisans. Oftentimes, because of people like myself touting them, foods come back. I think that we need to understand more of what people go through in their daily life, whether it's lung-fishing with the people in Uganda, diving for lobsters in Cuba or getting chased by witch doctors in Ecuador...
...also do work on existential risks to humanity: asteroids, full-scale nuclear war, etc. Do you feel that Utopia or eradication both seem to be plausible outcomes in the next century? The president of the Royal Society, Martin Rees, puts the chances of our civilization surviving at 50-50. That's in agreement with estimates from other scientists who look at existential risks. How we handle the challenges of this century could determine the future of humanity - and whether there will...
...Last month's presidential election was meant to help that. Democracy, at least, was one thing that the U.S.-led forces in the central Asian nation had managed to make work. Instead, the polls have turned into a disaster. Opposition politicians and Western diplomats allege epic-scale ballot-box stuffing, mainly by - but not exclusively - supporters of Karzai. The U.N. says votes in districts where fraud is proved to have taken place should be annulled. Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission has ordered a partial recount of the vote, citing "clear and convincing evidence of fraud." Karzai's closest challenger, Abdullah...
...probably the second biggest sport worldwide, and there's not really a country that's not involved in tennis right now. So with the growth of the game worldwide, the talent is going to be a lot more spread out. I think you're seeing that on a smaller scale with basketball. It used to just be, How much is the American team going to win by? Now the sport has grown so much that the Olympics are interesting again...
...particularly hard in recent months due to the global economic downturn and slumping U.S. economy, says Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, creating "a society unable to fulfill expectations of a large portion of the population." Says Birns, "El Salvador simply can't afford a full-scale war on crime and gangs." And so the Maras will continue to grow and export themselves...