This column has argued that the current system is unsustainable.

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The system revolves around a center column display panel.

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As Krugman accurately noted in that column, however, the demographics have turned against the system.

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Since 2004, the USDA has removed the brain and the spinal column, the parts suspected of causing mad cow disease in humans, from the food system.

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Each rat had, in effect, grown a new nervous system which ran from the motor cortexes of its brain, down its spinal column, past the breaks in its spine and into its back legs.

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This column's chief goal is to supply you with a worldview--a mental operating system--that will be as good 30 years from now as it is today.

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In a column Spitzer wrote for Slate last summer, he used the case as an example of a financial system still lacking sufficient government regulation.

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