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Texas A&M University in College Station Texas,1 has been conducting research into so-called “select agents,” i.e. biological agents that the government thinks can be turned into biological weapons. The university’s efforts are part of an $18 billion federal program to develop vaccines. On April 20, 2007 the Centers for Disease Control — the CDC — [...] The Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL), a premier nuclear weapons research facility, is unique among America’s national labs in that it is in an urban area. It is in Livermore, California, cheek-by-jowl to homes built across the street. Moreover, Livermore itself is part of San Francisco’s East Bay region. Seven million people, including this writer, [...] In 1880 the Italian explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza founded a new city in an African village called Nkuna. Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo, was born. One hundred twenty-three years later, a 2003 survey found Brazzaville the worst city in the world in which to live. The African nation of Somalia came into being in the 1960s when the former British protectorate of Somaliland joined with Italian Somalia. The amalgamation was not a good one for the people of Somaliland and the joining of those two previously separate states, along with the legacy of Western imperialism, is what set the country [...] It rests in a perfect box, it comes in various shiny shapes and sizes; it is a gem which is adored by many men and women throughout the world. It dazzles itself with pride. “Diamonds – Forever now†is a slogan De Beers created for the perfect diamond engagement ring. Imagine, the pressure the average [...] |
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