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...intellectual underpinnings of the latest assault on Darwin's theory come not from Bible-wielding Fundamentalists but from well-funded think tanks promoting a theory they call intelligent design, or I.D. for short. Their basic argument is that the origin of life, the diversity of species and even the structure of organs like the eye are so bewilderingly complex that they can only be the handiwork of a higher intelligence (name and nature unspecified...
...programming. Worldwide, only 0.3% of the $180 billion spent each year on developing software products goes to India. But, as with the earlier wave of tech outsourcing, R&D in India may prove to be too good a bargain to ignore: the cost of developing a basic software product in India is about $2 million, or just 40% of the cost in the U.S., according to India's IT industry group Nasscom. "We're likely to see an explosion in R&D outsourcing in 2005 and 2006," says Partha Iyengar, an analyst at the research firm Gartner who is based...
...Giants like Intel and Microsoft are bellwethers for other technology firms, but the seeds of globalized R&D were planted decades earlier. "The old model of research was Bell Labs'," says Ronil Hira, a professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Working on everything from basic science to prototypes of new products, centralized labs produced landmarks like the transistor, and every major corporation had such incubators. That changed over the past 20 years, as businesses started to shift their R&D money away from basic science in centralized labs (they would rely on universities for that...
...folks, and human nature is what it is,” Limbaugh said in remarks that, if he heard them, would have undoubtedly made Summers cringe. “And when you have these extreme leftist movements like militant feminism come along and try to change basic human nature, they may even get away with the illusion of success for a while, but it always comes back and catches up with them...
...Cold War became an epic generational conflict precisely because all of the players on the international stage came to define themselves by their alignment with one camp or the other - it was the basic organizing principle of their foreign policy. But many countries that are working closely with the U.S. on the problem of international terrorism are not about to make this cooperation the organizing principle of their foreign policy, for the simple reason that they don't see the problem of terrorism as anything remotely approaching the geopolitical menace represented by the Axis powers in World...