The golden rice story is becoming tiresome. Given an acceptable standard of living, Vitamin A can be obtained simply from consumers own vegetables. The quantity of Golden Rice necessary for a child to ingest to gain the daily Vitamin requirement would feed the entire family.

The WHO report...

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How I hate travelling west to east. I've done everything I can -- stayed up late, taken my melatonin -- and still here I am awake at an ungodly hour. Falling asleep is not the problem. I'm ready to nap any time. Staying asleep is the difficulty. Perhaps an hour surfing is what I need. But then it...

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Just back from a long holiday trip to Vancouver (about which more may follow). That flight arrived at Heathrow right on time. The onward leg to Rome was delayed about 90 minutes. And then, as our 'snack', BA offered up an overweight, but heavy and more than somewhat chewy, bridge roll, topped with s...

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Futurama fans, go [here]http://www.flickr.com/photos/nachop/sets/4500...

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At a late dinner with new friends, and the talk turned to the internet, and search engines. In a trice, given that half the assembled company were teachers of one sort or another, we were on plagiarism, and how the internet both makes it easier to do and easier to detect. I raised the Laura K. Krish...

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