There are serious doubts about whether the largest single deployment in the One Laptop Per Child initiative was worth the money. The $200 million initiative, inspired by Negroponte and paid for by the Peruvian government, was a grand initiative that
An up-close look at the roughnecks, puffnecks, strippers, truck drivers, lap dancers, man camps, meth labs, doubled housing prices, $25-an-hour waitresses and other gritty elements of the "new Big Rock Candy Mountain"
Along with annoyingly adhering to your TV screen and tabletops, dust can be a deadly material, exploding with enormously destructive force in places like coal mines, sugar refineries and grain silos.
"Extremist groups are already aligning behind Joe Stack, beginning to talk about him as a hero," said Mark Potok, director of the SPLC. "The growth of those groups has been astounding."