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Modern Prometheus
Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Peace Prize winning agronomist, will turn 93 on Sunday, March 25, 2007. It’s a birthday well worth celebrating. His life’s…
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Bureaucrash on NPR
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“Sense and sensibility” in sustainability reports
I just got in the mail today Philips “Sustainability Report 2006.” It’s also on the web. I hope the FT’s Lucy Kellaway gets…
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AP on the Nanny State
The AP has a very good article on the growth of the Nanny State. Best fact I didn’t know: two states have banned smoking…
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Marlo Lewis on C-SPAN: The Rest of the Story
Please find below the rest of Marlo’s Capitol Hill presentation “Al Gore’s Science Fiction: A Skeptic’s Guide to An Inconvenient Truth.” Part I is posted…
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Yes, But. . .
Fran, I knew about most of the cases you cite when I wrote the first post. None of those new to me are surprising and…