SemiAntics

What should we do about things like toxic pesticide use? Do developed nations have any right to tell developing nations what they can and can’t do with their land? Should national sovereignty and personal property rights be respected at the cost of irreversible damage to the earth?

Carbofuran, also known as 2,3-dihyrdro-2,2-dimethyl-7-benzofuranyl methylcarbamate, is a highly toxic pesticide that is used on field crops–especially soy beans.Carbofuran is made to kill insects, mites, and nematodes, but unfortunatley, it also kills just about every other animal on the planet.

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There are 1243 pages in the Penguin paperback, unabridged edition.

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“Alexandre Dumas is making me a widow!”

~ Grace (2008 - 6 - 13)

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Skype is only one of many services that offer voice over the internet - essentially, it is just “free” telephone if you have a fast connection. Telecommunications are probably all going to be moving to some sort of high speed digital connection in the future, but hopefully it will be a more graceful solution than Skype.

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If you use LaTeX to create professional documents, and if you use GNU/Linux with Gnome, you are in the minority. I can’t possibly overrate this setup, and I encourage you to invest some time in it - it will be worth the gains to you, especially if you are a researcher and write papers a lot. I used LaTeX for my English papers in my college composition class. LaTeX is useful for writing books as well, in fact it is the de facto standard for publishing anything you want to look really awesome, especially math books and papers.

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Life in the new apartment is quite different.

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Grace’s Mom has made some lovely paintings over the past couple of years. You can buy the paintings if you like them.

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Ipanema is a great restaurant in the Fan of Richmond, near VCU. If you like vegetarian, vegan or just good cooking, this is the place. We’ve had a lot of the items on the menu and have always been pleased. Service is very polite and friendly.

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Before you sit down and whip out that new website, resume, article or research paper, take a few moments to make sure you understand the meaning and correct uses of headings.

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“It’s the government; I’m not sure if they do email yet.”

~ Grace (2008 - 4 - 29)

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