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...Especially in the drier parts of the world - such as the American Southwest, northern China amd the Middle East - water recycling could be a way to allow development without turning to even more expensive methods of water reclamation, like desalinization. But what we really need to do is treat water as the limited resource it is, first by limiting pollution, then by reusing it as much as possible. The U.N.'s Barlow - whose mandate is to increase access to clean water for the 1.7 billion people worldwide who now lack it - is doubtful about the cost of recycling programs like...
Some Nobel Prizes have gone to discoveries that turned out to be wrong. The 1926 Nobel Prize in Medicine went to Johannes Fibiger for the discovery that roundworms cause cancer (they don't). A year later, psychiatrist Julius Wagner-Jauregg won for injecting patients with malaria to treat syphilitic dementia (not a good idea). Past laureates have espoused eugenics, opposed public school, joined the Nazi party and claimed that the Sept. 11 attacks were an inside job. But the majority of prizes have reflected sound discoveries (X-rays, quantum physics, penicillin) and respected leaders (Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, Nelson...
...Along? Since when does the military need a sanctuary city [Dec. 1]? The only ones who treat the U.S. military with disrespect are those in the Bush-Cheney Administration. Also, the modern military has become an insulated class of people who think they are of a higher order than other citizens. I realize that very few are pulling the load when it comes to the fighting, but don't dare think for one instant that there is any one group that is more American than another. Didn't we reject that notion by not electing Sarah Palin? Roger B. Wicks...
...event, sponsored by Harvard’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, is one of two in December that will address the link between art and the science of cooking. “It is important that science is not treated in a disrespectful way,” he said, of its use in culinary endeavors. “Science is a serious thing, and you don’t treat it like a show.” Adrià expressed hope that he would be able to work with Harvard?...
...This is a big name and it shows that he [Obama] is not going to treat the Veterans Affairs Secretary as a low priority."- Paul Reickhoff, executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, on how the appointment will boost veteran's morale...