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In northern California, foothill yellow-legged tadpoles are developing into juvenile frogs with missing legs and eyes, like the animal seen above in 2008. These deformities are possibly caused by outbreaks of an alien parasite from Eurasia that usually attacks fish used in aquaculture and the aquarium trade, a new study says.

TALENT without flexibility was a dangerous thing in the Soviet Union, as thousands found to their cost. Sergei Mikhalkov had talent aplenty, as a poet, playwright, children’s writer and satirist. But, more important, he was flexible. Mr Mikhalkov penned the words to two versions of the Soviet national anthem, one glorifying Stalin and one ignoring him. After Russia shrugged off communism he wrote a third version, to the same tune. In between he denounced two of the country’s greatest writers, Boris Pasternak and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Every regime he served gave him medals.
Fuente: Reforma (Sección Universitarios, página 20).
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Imagine that someone invented a pill even better than the one I take. Let’s call it the Dorian Gray pill, after the Oscar Wilde character. Every day that you take the Dorian Gray, you will not die, get sick, or even age. Absolutely guaranteed. The catch? A year’s supply costs $150,000.
Anyone who is able to afford this new treatment can live forever. Certainly, Bill Gates can afford it. Most likely, thousands of upper-income Americans would gladly shell out $150,000 a year for immortality.
Most Americans, however, would not be so lucky. Because the price of these new pills well exceeds average income, it would be impossible to provide them for everyone, even if all the economy’s resources were devoted to producing Dorian Gray tablets.So here is the hard question: How should we, as a society, decide who gets the benefits of this medical breakthrough? Are we going to be health care egalitarians and try to prohibit Bill Gates from using his wealth to outlive Joe Sixpack? Or are we going to learn to live (and die) with vast differences in health outcomes? Is there a middle way?
These questions may seem the stuff of science fiction, but they are not so distant from those lurking in the background of today’s health care debate. Despite all the talk about waste and abuse in our health system (which no doubt exists to some degree), the main driver of increasing health care costs is advances in medical technology...
... Por primera vez en su historia, Luz y Fuerza del Centro (LyF) descontará el día a los trabajadores que participaron en el bloqueo al Periférico Sur el jueves 3 de septiembre y advirtió que levantará actas administrativas en futuras manifestaciones.
A principios de mes, un grupo de 3 mil miembros del Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME) bloqueó el tránsito frente a la Secretaría del Trabajo durante 10 horas.
En esa ocasión, LyF levantó actas administrativas a cerca de 2 mil 500 empleados, a quienes se les descontará el día en esta o, máximo, la siguiente quincena, dijo una fuente de la empresa.
Otras actas administrativas se levantaron contra aquellos empleados que usaron vehículos propiedad de la compañía para manifestarse, ya que se trata de recursos públicos.