Word: uselessness
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CONTAINMENT Floating barriers are placed around the oil out at sea or along a shoreline to contain the mess. In rough seas, however, these barriers are useless. Chemical gelling agents could be used to help thicken the slick and make it more manageable...
...government debt handily exceeds GDP?two good indicators that the returns on those Keynesian stimuli are diminishing. But like the laboratory pigeon that keeps hitting the lever even though the reward is no longer coming, Japan's government can't stop banging away with its favorite but increasingly useless palliatives: public spending and fiscal stimulus...
...best-designed drug is useless if it can't go where it's needed, say, in the brain or lungs. CEO Holthuis' tiny OctoPlus, based in the Netherlands, has helped biotechs chemically package 25 drugs to reach bodily ZIP codes and, once there, work efficiently. The seven-year-old private company has been profitable from Day One, and this year revenues jumped 25%, to $5 million. Holthuis, 48, has raised $6 million to speed development of microscopic beads that release drugs gradually into the body. Clinical trials are slated for spring...
...compassionate conservatism.” Of course, the irony of the picture is that the empty road—and I say “empty” because ultimately this is a callously empty image—beckons you to click and enter and buy lots of useless patriotic, yet stylish, crap...
...research ...continues to hamper development of rational public policy" on medical marijuana. Which raises the question, Why, after five millenniums, doesn't such research exist? Two possible answers: First, the government may have rejected cannabis studies to avoid any challenge to its view that pot is dangerous and medically useless. Second, pot may just be dangerous and medically useless...