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...remains: is it really bad if species such as the pig-tailed bandicoot go extinct? Wilson attempts to explain the value of biodiversity, using a combination of utilitarian and purely moral arguments for saving species. Humanity, he argues, is driving straight for a cliff, and driving fast. Two hundred thousand humans are born each day, and conservative projections have the world population topping off around 10 billion late this century. With so many humans competing for rapidly-shrinking resources, both food and water are likely to become exceedingly scarce. And when animals have to compete with humans for food...
...hundred thousand people attend the Harvard-Yale football game. How many police officers would it take to eliminate all communal sources of alcohol there?” she asked...
SpyChecker.com runs a handy database that lists more than a thousand of these programs and tells you what each one does. Spywareinfo.com and Counterexploitation (at cexx.org are also hot on the spyware trail. But this kind of malicious code is proliferating faster than it can be catalogued, so there's often no telling how a particular program is being used, what kind of sensitive information it is broadcasting or what other programs it might have secretly installed on your machine. If dotcoms can slip this stuff past our defenses, just imagine what a terrorist could...
...Forsyte Saga--a 26-part Victorian-Edwardian mini-series based on John Galsworthy's novels--it was revolutionary. Years before The Sopranos, it showed Americans that TV could tell stories as novels do. Its success led PBS to create Masterpiece Theatre--it was the soap that launched a thousand bustles. To say that remaking the show now is not quite so daring is kind. To be unkind--and honest--it only bolsters the criticism that PBS these days is redundant and irrelevant...
...faced with the task of informing an uptight store-owner that her thousand-dollar sample merchandise, entrusted to Vogue for the purposes of our seasonal fashion shoot, now featured an intriguing splatter-style motif. The rabbit had been whisked in at the last minute, after the stylist informed me in a stroke of artistic inspiration that the look she had envisaged for the story—“Harry Potter meets English private school meets upper-crust garden party”—necessitated the presence of something white and frolicky. It hadn’t been easy...