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Then again, the history of protected sex, in the broadest sense, used to be a whole lot yuckier. Take the practice of women in ancient Egypt who resorted to using crocodile dung as a spermicide. Modern research has shown that crocodile dung actually created optimum conditions for sperm because of its alkalinity, but the sheer grossness of the practice might have worked - if only by completely ruining the mood. (See pictures of animal attraction...
...Turning Savers into Spenders the goal for china's transition sounds straightforward enough. "We've become a big economy," says Wang Zhenzhong, an adviser to the Chinese government and director of the economic-research institute at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). "Now, we need to become a strong economy." In a nutshell, this means becoming a bit more like Japan by developing domestic, technologically formidable manufacturers, rather than just making a lot of inexpensive stuff for the rest of the world. It also means becoming a bit more like the U.S., where factory jobs have over the years...
...tumbled and may drop below 2% next year. And for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the threat of large-scale unemployment looms. "Money was falling from the sky in the past two to three years," says Maxim Oreshkin, the head of research at private-sector Rosbank in Moscow. "Now it's stopped falling...
...flexible. Some investment bankers are switching into financial planning or selling insurance. "When those looking for high-end jobs are struggling, they become amazingly tolerant," says Douglas Klein, president of Sirota Survey Intelligence, a New York City--based research firm. "They'll take work for which they're underpaid and overqualified." For some, that flexibility means a willingness to accept a transitional position below the salary they're accustomed to--what's often called a survival or fallback job. Legendary investor Warren Buffett has said he would never take a job he wouldn't want to keep. And he stayed...
High-tech concrete is just one of the products that have emerged from the research-and-development labs of cement, steel and chemicals firms this decade, and it signals an increasing commitment by heavy industry to the notion of "sustainability." As public pressure has grown to reduce energy use and carbon emissions--and in general to tread more lightly on the environment--companies in these industries have poured money into R&D efforts. Much of the work has focused on internal processes, especially on the critical task of how to lower emissions during manufacturing. But in their labs, scientists have...