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Who buys ivory? Are the customers mainly in Asia, and for aphrodisiac purposes, or is this a stereotyp?

Also, many textbooks come with teaching material, incl. slides and handouts, short tests, etc. If you have to teach a course for the first time, it is super easy to get up and running with little prep work.

A start-up from Boston called Sample6 is using phages in diagnostics, currently only for food but it is start. I would be very afraid it ends up like the introduction of Mongoose to Hawaii to control rats in the 19th century.

In many other countries, pain is treated without highly addictive opioids. Only in the US are they available at that scale.

If you would publish such a "poem" about anybody in Germany, you could be sued for defamation. Just because you claim it is satire doesn't mean it is protected speech.

That piqued my interest. Do you know the name of any of the Japanese niche brands?

Mine was employment based / EB1. It was not the number of forms, but the structure that made it complicated. The final package we submitted was over 150 pages total for me and my wife. This is in part because the same information is required multiple times, since the different steps get reviewed by different departments.

I went through the green card process last year. From my experience, it is nearly impossible without a lawyer.

I wonder how much of the delay can be attributed to lobbying from the immigration lawyers that profit from the complicated, paper based process.