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...even used during the Vietnam War to increase rainfall on the Ho Chi Minh trail to hamper supply movement, until word got out and the U.S. agreed not to play with the weather while making war. In the 1970s, the science of cloud seeding acquired a whiff of the snake oil, as disreputable private companies tried hawking it to desperate, drought-ridden communities. And by the following decade, it had fallen out of favor (its use in Vietnam, which reminded some people of Agent Orange, probably didn't help much), and funding fell off with...
...whether Chinese consumers will demand--and receive--the same assurance of safety that Western consumers do. David Zweig, a scholar at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, compares China's brand of capitalism to the Wild West. It's an apt analogy. In late 19th century America, snake-oil salesmen were stock characters of the western frontier. They became notorious for their dangerous, counterfeit cure-alls, and there were no laws to stop them. By 1906, Americans had had enough bad medicine, and Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act, which led to the creation...
Even we urban dwellers have seen the signs. Neighbor kids gathered around a big live oak to watch a large rat snake hanging in the branches - rat snakes are a "good thing," one neighbor, a native Texan, assures everyone as the grownups shudder. Mosquitoes don't wait for dusk to come out and refilling the backyard bird feeder is like a trek in the Amazonian jungle, no need this year to keep the birdbath filled...
...Romney is like a charlatan selling snake oil at a carnival. He accommodates his beliefs to the situation at hand for his own advancement. And if he cannot figure out that the Mormon church is a cult branch of traditional Christianity, how would he handle the complex challenges he would encounter as President and Commander in Chief? Fred M. Fariss, Virginia Beach...
...Romney is like a charlatan selling snake oil at a carnival. He accommodates his beliefs to the situation at hand for his own advancement. And if he cannot figure out that the Mormon Church is a cult branch of traditional Christianity, how would he handle the complex challenges he would encounter as President and Commander in Chief? Fred M. Fariss, VIRGINIA BEACH...