The Great Ganesha

Today’s Times has an article on the whole Chinese bad-food-imports fiasco. But they’re saying that in terms of absolute number of stoppages, India tops the list. It seems we’re sending the US salmonella-infested peppercorns (and other spices).
Methinks that India is sending several spices in small quantities (compared to the stuff coming in from China, say) [...]

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We are in sunny Puerto Rico this week. I’m chairing a session at a conference here (and giving a talk). We got here on Sunday and had a little, shall we say, “adventure” on the way to our hotel.
Having recently been introduced to the wonders of the navigational GPS, we decided to get one for [...]

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