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And what were those motivations? In the 17th century, when you had the development of calculus and all these scientific advances, some people thought maybe we could create a language that works like mathematical notation. That if you want to work out the "truth" of something, you could just put...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arika Okrent: Speaking Klingon | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

Although conservative critics have long opposed giving clean needles to drug addicts on moral grounds, the consensus among public health experts - including the World Health Organization and the American Medical Association - is that the strategy works to reduce the spread of HIV. "I think the evidence for needle exchange is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Isn't Funding Needle-Exchange Programs | 5/16/2009 | See Source »

The biggest concession to all industrial burners of fossil fuels raised the national cap on greenhouse gas emissions from the original proposal of 5.7 billion metric tons (BMT) by 2020 to 5.9 BMT. The difference may seem nominal until you consider what the elite scientific body, the International Panel on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environmentalists Attack House Global-Warming Deal | 5/16/2009 | See Source »

Although the paper focuses on foreign military policy, there is also a significant domestic socioeconomic element that was missing from the 2000 version. The document itself was supposed to be released in March, but was delayed possibly for this very reason. Media speculation abounds that the hold-up was due...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready for a Fight: Russia's New Security Policy | 5/16/2009 | See Source »

The suit will hinge on the fact that the first confirmed case of H1N1 appears to be a 5-year-old Mexican boy from La Gloria who lived not far from the Smithfield pork-farming operation. Local villagers had been complaining about the smell and the vast amounts of manure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: H1N1 Virus: The First Legal Action Targets a Pig Farm | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

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