When I was a kid, I took an interest in bugs. I searched for them under rocks and chased them with nets. There were beetles, crickets, and moths. The prize catch, however, was the monarch butterfly, with its big wings and orange-and-black coloring.
The fact that India has a Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers should give us pause. Is this an important post or is India’s government just hopelessly bloated?
The Panama Canal is a crucial corridor for international trade: Four percent of the planet’s exports pass through it, including 11 percent of those involving the United States. A quick look at a world map shows why. By moving through the isthmus, ships avoid an 8,000-mile journey around the tip of South America.
If scientists were to discover a drug that could save children from a deadly affliction AND help cancer patients recover from chemotherapy, they’d win wide acclaim for making a great contribution to mankind’s well-being…
Around the time of the Civil War, train travel was incredibly inefficient. People who planned a short trip from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., for example, couldn’t go direct. Instead, they took a train from Philadelphia to Baltimore. Then they had to switch lines, moving several city blocks across Baltimore before resuming their journey to Washington.