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A huge population of red fire ants has bedeviled Texas farmers for years. By some estimates the insectscost state businesses close to $1 billion a year due to crop and machinery destruction. Killing the ants and their nests has not proven easy.
Texas A＆M researchers have discovered that the phorid fly from South America will lay eggs on the red fire ants and the maggots which are hatched eat away at the ant’s brains, eventually causing their heads to fall off. Someone at the university was willing to underwrite the work to solve a problem. That investment was almost certainly much less than the $1 billion a year that fire ants cost businesses in the state.
A recession does not stop advancements in technology. It just makes companies so frightened of risk that they choose not to make the investment in the red fire ant projects.
In the last week, the two most successful technology companies in the world, IBM and Google have announced major new products
A. are brought to the edge of bankruptcy for lack of new products
B. do not earn enough revenue for investing in new technology
C. do not employ as many technology staffs as IBM and Google
D. are not as actively innovative as IMB and Google are