September 1, 2005
Blame It On Cain
It’s been a rather impressive millennium on the natural disaster front, wouldn’t you say?
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August 6, 2005
Paint By Numbers
There is no getting around the fact that we live in a rich world of complex interactions that often make life and its events seem difficult to understand. This complexity drives whole industries and branches of scientific research, whose existence is predicated on a mission to explain everything from the causes of hypertension and heart disease, to price activity in world markets, to the feeding and mating habits of insect colonies, to the behavior of value maximizing consumers.
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June 22, 2005
The Needle And The Damage Done
How does the man go on?
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August 24, 2003
California Recall 2003
In a Democracy, the People get the government they deserve.
-Adlai Stevenson
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June 20, 2003
Science? What Science?
The Administration of Smoke and Mirrors released this week the newest hit song in its long-running dance of deception, “We Have God On Our Side,” a lullaby produced by the Environmental Protection Agency, with a half share of songwriting credit to the White House Dept. of Information Management.
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