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...Democracy (which for some reason has its title and subtitle reversed in the U.S.), the country isn't merely sundered into the worlds of the rich and the poor. It is a lawless dystopia, plagued by rapacity and violence: "In eastern India, bauxite and iron-ore mining is destroying whole ecosystems, turning fertile land into desert," she writes in the introduction. And in an essay, about the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat: "Women were stripped, gang-raped; parents were bludgeoned to death in front of their children." The writing is extremely provocative - corporations are marauders, politicians are fascists...
...think of the challenges associated with an entire colony and coordinating its activities. The project now has three main thrusts: brain, body, and colony. The researchers aim to build a colony of robotic bees that can be individually programmed to perform actions that benefit the hive as a whole, said Wood, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the engineering school and the project’s principal investigator. “The inspiration came from observations of actual bees,” Wood said. “Not only bees themselves, but also the interactions bees have with each...
...what's this guy's secret? Start with the diet. "I try to eat a lot of raw foods and a lot of whole [grains]," says Couture. "I try to stay towards the alkaline type foods like raw almonds and greens and those sort of things as much as possible. Stay away from the dairies, the sugars and processed food, but keep it simple. I'm not one of those guys who likes to measure all that crap." As he's gotten older, Couture has also paid more attention to blood chemistry. He's now cutting down on his iron...
...covering the estimated 45 million or so uninsured. While that would save the federal Treasury money in the short run, health-care experts warn it would make it impossible to contend with the larger forces that are driving up health-care costs and burdening the economy as a whole. For instance, the uninsured would continue to show up for treatment in the expensive setting of hospital emergency rooms, and those hospitals would continue to shift those costs onto their paying patients. (See 10 players in health-care reform...
...However, he doesn't think he could have made the trip when he was 13, nor would he have gone for two whole years. "You have to be incredibly headstrong - it was difficult for me now," he says, laughing. On his nearly 30,000-mile (48,000 km) journey, Perham subsisted on freeze-dried food and faced large waves, high winds and equipment failures. Along with the physical strain, he faced mental exhaustion brought on by isolation and sleep deprivation. At one point, he even had to turn off his tracking device when he reached pirate-infested waters to avoid...