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A mesh of interlocking share-holdings in the finance and banking sector, upstream petroleum refining, and the booming telecoms industry draws business barons, retired generals, and powerful traditional rulers into a rancorous but surprisingly stable family.

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They receive inputs from thousands of upstream partners and compute their own electrical outputs, which then, if they pass a certain threshold, will go to thousands of downstream partners.

Salmon swim upstream to get to their spawning grounds, and lancet flukes commandeer a passing ant, crawl into its brain, and drive it up a blade of grass like an all-terrain vehicle.

And of course, as you go back upstream, the components get smaller and therefore cheaper.

I found out that advances in science rarely come upstream from an ability to stand at a blackboard and conjure images from unfolding mathematical propositions and equations.

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