African Land Grab
We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia's largest greenhouse. Nestling below an...
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The Savanna Principle
One of the fundamental assumptions of evolutionary psychology is that there is nothing special about the human brain. It is an evolved organ, just like the hand or the pancreas or any other part of the...
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Film Review - "Seamstresses"
So it is possible after all - a Bulgarian film that neither tries to fill cinema halls with outrage and cheap humour nor aims solely at the festival snobs with muddled pretenses. If audiences had every...
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Surge Capacity
In large law firms, there is a significant overhead associated with each attorney--office space, IT infrastructure, secretarial and paralegal support, salary, etc. As a result, the firm has a...
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A Russian In America Writes His Impressions
Dear Dmitry,I hope you don't mind that this is in Russian. I think that this way I can be more completely honest. I am a relatively recent graduate of one of the many faceless post-Soviet institutions...
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American Ethics
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp because they feared that releasing them would harm the push for war...
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Peak Oil Warning From US Military
The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity could disappear within two years and there could be serious shortages by 2015 with a significant economic and political impact.The energy...
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Unbridled Militarism
As a visitor to our nation's capital, I cannot tell you how disconcerting it is to step off the metro and find yourself face to face with a F-35 fighter jet. Where you would normally expect to find ads...
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Banking & The Drug Trade
Just before sunset on April 10, 2006, a DC-9 jet landed at the international airport in the port city of Ciudad del Carmen, 500 miles east of Mexico City. As soldiers on the ground approached the...
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What Your Hospital Does Not Want You To Know
Mainstreet.com offers a few essential facts about hospitals that you should know before you check in:Stay Healthy in JulyJuly is the most dangerous month to visit a hospital. That's the month when...
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Oil and Vulgarity
It is time to end our oil nightmare - where a few people have won the lottery and are using their winnings to pillage the rest of the world and the rest are toiling for nothing and the planet is going...
View ArticleScrutinize the Pharma-Doctor Complex
Two drug executives walked into a bar. No, this is not the start of a joke. The workers for Roche, a Swiss drugs firm, had been dining with doctors after a medical conference. At the bar, alleged an...
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