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...another, shipments of endangered species to China will inevitably start to decline. In a worst-case scenario, supply will simply dry up as animal populations shrink. Right now, the Chinese "take everything we have," says Hendrawan, who runs the reptile abattoir. "They always ask for more, but snakes are getting harder and harder to find, especially the pythons. The minimum size is 2.5 meters. It used to be we could find many of even 7 and 8 meters but now we are happy with 4 meters." WildAid's Galster says a better solution is to eliminate demand. "If we could...
...people's hands and how to mass-market mobile services. And they already provide some video content over their existing networks. But once mobile broadcasting goes mainstream, users could well abandon 3G for the real thing. The near future will likely involve some mixture of transmission methods. One possible scenario is that consumers might freely fetch mass-market shows from broadcast airwaves, while purchasing more specialized video - such as, say, a Lenny Bruce skit or minor-league soccer clip - from mobile networks. This would not be all bad for mobile operators. Not only would it save some revenue for them...
...time it's an alien invasion. A Navy vessel is visited by a spacecraft that resembles a shape-shifting Christmas ornament; the boat's surviving crew members have their DNA reprogrammed with alien code and turn evil. So Washington calls in Molly Anne Caffrey (Carla Gugino), a worst-case-scenario consultant, and assembles a team of eccentric scientists. The cast is startlingly good--there's also Peter Dinklage (The Station Agent) and Charles S. Dutton (Roc)--given that the actors have to deliver lines like "I think we're looking at a four-dimensional object--in three- dimensional space...
...It’s probably not a perfect scenario,” Murphy admits. “We’d rather play someone [playing in] their first game than go into a buzz saw in midseason form...
Reliving a scenario earmarked for change after 9/11, officials in different agencies still couldn't communicate by radio or telephone with one another, despite generous Homeland Security grants meant to fix such problems. Others had nothing but cell phones, which predictably failed. Even the Salvation Army lost contact with 200 of its volunteers...