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Who buys ivory? Are the customers mainly in Asia, and for aphrodisiac purposes, or is this a stereotyp?

Also, many textbooks come with teaching material, incl. slides and handouts, short tests, etc. If you have to teach a course for the first time, it is super easy to get up and running with little prep work.

A start-up from Boston called Sample6 is using phages in diagnostics, currently only for food but it is start. I would be very afraid it ends up like the introduction of Mongoose to Hawaii to control rats in the 19th century.

In many other countries, pain is treated without highly addictive opioids. Only in the US are they available at that scale.

If you would publish such a "poem" about anybody in Germany, you could be sued for defamation. Just because you claim it is satire doesn't mean it is protected speech.

How can they claim the F35 "shares many—if not necessarily all—of the same close air support capabilities as the $18.8 million A-10" if it doesn't have a functioning cannon yet [1]. I thought the A-10 is basically a airframe built around a cannon.

[1] http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/air-space/strike/20...

That piqued my interest. Do you know the name of any of the Japanese niche brands?

People in the lower income bracket don't go to the polls in the same rate as the higher income bracket.

Upps forgot the source: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/income-gap-at...

Mine was employment based / EB1. It was not the number of forms, but the structure that made it complicated. The final package we submitted was over 150 pages total for me and my wife. This is in part because the same information is required multiple times, since the different steps get reviewed by different departments.

I went through the green card process last year. From my experience, it is nearly impossible without a lawyer.

I wonder how much of the delay can be attributed to lobbying from the immigration lawyers that profit from the complicated, paper based process.

Tribogenics (http://tribogenics.com/) turned this discovery in to an actual product. I think they moved from tape to using disks that oscillate to connect and disconnect. (http://singularityhub.com/2013/11/16/southern-california-sta...)

They are not being sued. They are listed as suspects, and the DA is determining if there is a case or not.