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- touche posted on 02/21/2008Opportunities in China Lure Scientists Home By Ariana Eunjung Cha Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, February 20, 2008; D01 SHANGHAI -- Sheng Huizhen's life story is typical of immigrants who succeeded in America. After getting her PhD in biochemistry, she landed a job as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institutes of Health. She got a green card, bought a house in Maryland and worked her way up to visiting associate, senior staff fellow and, finally, the prestigious position o
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- touche posted on 02/12/2008When Incest Is Best: Kissing Cousins Have More Kin Study analyzing more than 200 years of data finds that couples consisting of third cousins have the highest reproductive success By Nikhil Swaminathan It is not quite incest. And though it will increase your chances of birthing a healthy baby, it is a bit unorthodox, to say the least. Still, scientists at Icelandic biotechnology company deCODE genetics say that when third and fourth cousins procreate, they generally have scads of kids and grandkids (r
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- touche posted on 02/09/2008NBA referee recounts life as Mafia infiltrator DAVID PORTER The Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. - When fans or players vent their frustrations at NBA referee Bob Delaney, the 21-year veteran usually has no problem shrugging them off. That's because the calls he makes on the hardwood pale in comparison to the ones he had to make as a New Jersey state trooper who went undercover to expose the Mafia in the mid-1970s. Those days are brought to life in a new book, "Covert: My Years Infiltrating the
- touche posted on 02/09/2008Rising Costs in China Seep Into U.S. Market Importers Pay More or Cancel Orders By Ariana Eunjung Cha Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, February 9, 2008; D01 SHENZHEN, China -- A year ago, Mei Meng's factory sold foot-tall plush teddy bears, rabbits and ducks for export to the United States for $1.30 each. Now they're $2, and he doesn't rule out the possibility that prices will go up again. Likewise, manufacturers say wholesale prices of cowboy hats made in China have gone from $1
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- touche posted on 02/09/2008My White House Dilemma By Leon Fleisher Saturday, February 9, 2008; A15 I am a musician, one of five artists -- the others being Brian Wilson, Steve Martin, Diana Ross and Martin Scorsese -- honored recently by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The event, a deeply moving and gratifying tribute to the performing arts and artists in America, was broadcast to our nation. But what you couldn't see in that broadcast was how conflicted I felt about being there. Let me be frank:
- touche posted on 02/07/2008February 7, 2008 Romney quits race, shocks supporters at CPAC Posted: 02:37 PM ET Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is suspending his campaign. WASHINGTON (CNN) ¨C Mitt Romney ended his presidential run Thursday, telling a conservative audience that continuing the race against rival John McCain would make it more likely Democrats would win the White House ¡ª and ¡°in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror.¡± Boos rose from the audience at th
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- touche posted on 02/04/2008I quess 'Floater' coined the word. Here's the googling result: Taxonomic name: Pycnonotus cafer (Linnaeus, 1766) Common names: bulbul cafre (French), red-vented bulbul (English), Rußb¨¹lb¨¹l (German) Organism type: bird Pycnonotus cafer is a noisy, gregarious bird distinguished by a conspicuous crimson patch below the root of the tail. It is aggressive and chases off other bird species and may also help to spread the seeds of other invasive species. It is an agricultural pest destroy
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- touche posted on 01/25/2008Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont, Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, 1998 Õâ±¾Êé²»ÊÇÐÂÊ飬ÒѾʮÄê¾ÉÁË¡£µ«ÊÇÎÒ¾õµÃÕâ±¾Êé²»¿É¶àµÃ£¬ÈÔȻֵµÃ½éÉÜһϡ£ ˵Õâ±¾Ê飬±ØÐëÊ×ÏÈÌáÒ»ÏÂÔø¾ºä¶¯Ò»Ê±µÄËùν¡°Ë÷¸ßÆ°¸¡±£¨Sokal Hoax)¡£Ë÷¸ßÊÇŦԼ´óѧµÄÎïÀí½ÌÊÚ£¬ÒòΪ²»ÂúÈËÎÄ֪ʶ·Ö×Ó²»¶®¿Æѧµ«´ó̸¿Æѧ£¬ÊÔͼÓÿÆѧÀ´Ö§³Å×Ô¼ºµÄ×÷·¨£¬Ëû·ÂЧÕâÀàд×÷£¬¶«ÒýÎ÷Ö¤£¬Í¿Ñ»ÁËһƪÌâΪ¡¶´òÆƱ߽磺×ßÏòÒ»¸öÁ¿×ÓÖØÁ¦µÄת»»ÊÍÒåѧ¡·µÄÎÄÕ£¬Í¶¼Ä¸ø¡¶Éç»áÎı¾¡·ÔÓÖ¾¡£ÎÄÕ¾¹ýºË×¼ÔÚ1996Ä꡶Éç»áÎı¾¡·µÄ´ºÏÄÆÚÖеdzö¡£µÇ³öºó
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- touche posted on 01/17/2008Anyone cares to grind your teeth on this and face the power? Ó¢ÒëÖУºmoral hazard£¬³£¼ûÓÚ¾¼Ãѧ£¬±£ÏÕÒµµÄÌÖÂÛ¡£ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Moral hazard is the prospect that a party insulated from risk may behave differently from the way it would behave if it were fully exposed to the risk. Moral hazard arises because an individual or institution does not bear the full consequences of its actions, and therefore has a tendency to act less carefully than it otherwise would, leaving another
- touche posted on 01/11/2008
- touche posted on 01/06/2008The Cold War in Hindsight After a brush with calamity in 1983, both sides moved away from confrontation. Reviewed by Richard Rhodes Sunday, January 6, 2008; BW06 FOR THE SOUL OF MANKIND The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War By Melvyn P. Leffler | Hill and Wang. 586 pp. $35 A FAILED EMPIRE The Soviet Union in the Cold War From Stalin to Gorbachev By Vladislav M. Zubok | Univ. of North Carolina. 467 pp. $39.95 In the first decade of what some claim to be a new cold war
- touche posted on 01/06/2008This girl has been thinking and writing big but I haven't scrutinized her yet. ************************ Tolerant, We Stand Diversity lifted up empires and intolerance brought them down. Reviewed by James F. Hoge Jr. Sunday, January 6, 2008; BW05 DAY OF EMPIRE How Hyperpowers Rise To Global Dominance -- And Why They Fall By Amy Chua Doubleday. 396 pp. $27.95 Call 'em the Magnificent Seven. There have been many great powers in history but only seven that Amy Chua describes in D
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- touche posted on 11/21/2007Õª×Ô´óÓ¢°Ù¿Æ French rule The protectorate French control over Cambodia was an offshoot of French involvement in the neighbouring provinces of Vietnam. France's decision to advance into Cambodia came only when it feared that British and Siamese expansion might threaten its access to the largely unmapped Mekong River, which, it assumed (incorrectly), would provide access to central China. In 1863 French naval officers from Vietnam persuaded Norodom to sign a treaty that gave France control of Cambod
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