Without agar, countries could not produce vaccines or the “miracle drug” penicillin, especially critical in wartime. In fact, they risked a “breakdown of [the] public health service” that would have had “far-reaching and serious results,” according to Lieutenant-General Ernest Bradfield. Extracted from marine algae and solidified into a jelly-like substrate, agar provides the surface on which scientists grow colonies of microbes for vaccine production and antibiotic testing. “The most important service that agar renders to mankind, in war or in peace, is as a bacteriological culture medium,” wrote oceanographer C.K. Tseng in a 1944 essay titled “A Seaweed Goes to War.”3
I searched for benign explanations. Could it be that milk is simply too heavy, and that by including the weight of the water content that boils off I am tilting the simplex too far in its direction? Could it be that by excluding slices of bread as ingredients since they aren’t raw flour and do not go in a mixing bowl, I have excluded breakfasts like french toast, eggs in a basket, breakfast burritos, and breakfast sandwiches that might yet have saved us? Could I have overlooked some arcane culture that breaks their fast with dumplings or egg noodles? None of these satisfied me. The Abyss stared back.
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「但張又俠的問題並非一夜之間,」亞洲協會政策研究所中國政治研究員牛犇(Neil Thomas)在發給BBC中文的電郵中表示,多年來傳言不斷的張深陷政治漩渦。他長期掌管解放軍裝備採購系統——這正是腐敗醜聞的「震中」。前「副手」李尚福倒台,幾位前秘書被查,勝利日閱兵被邊緣化。種種跡象早已浮現。張又俠的清洗,與其說是晴天霹靂,不如說是一場緩慢醞釀的醜聞終於爆發。