Technology gets you the numbers to slam the government upside the head.

This is an alcohol-free park. There's an incredible problem with alcohol at Shell Key now. It doesn't need to happen at Fort De Soto.

There are some foundations being shook.

Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex.

It is all very well for the government to trumpet the merits of technology in reducing carbon emissions, but it simply isn't enough; we need robust, measurable targets, not just vague aspirations.

The Chinese government is establishing high-technology standards that differ from international standards. In effect, foreign high-technology intellectual property rights are not only losing value, but the high-technology standards [that China is creating] are also incompatible with international high-technology standards, [which consequently are] making entry into China's market difficult for foreign companies with intellectual property rights in high technology.