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...cooler" tobacco? Are the means we're implementing the most effective ones? And, lest we forget, is the biotechnological innovation a good technology, or is it insufficient? Not only are GM organisms ethically and environmentally questionable, they're also technologically unsound. The only question that can really be conclusively answered when it comes to GM organisms is whether we should use them. Unequivocally, the answer is no. There are too many uncertainties involved...
This brings us around to the original question, which we now approach from a different angle: Is it always fair to take what the market will bear? Perhaps for athletes--as opposed to magnates, movie stars or meteorologists--the answer is "Not always." This goes to identification. We all realize that were we as clever as Bill Gates or as lovely as Julia Roberts, the world would reward us justly...
...traditional pink dress and golden stole of ancient Rome. She bursts into a third-grade classroom and greets her students: "Salvete, omnes!" (Hello, everyone!) The kids respond in kind, and soon they are studying derivatives. "How many people are in a duet?" High asks. All the kids know the answer, and when she asks how they know, a boy responds, "Because duo is 'two' in Latin." High replies, "Plaudite!" and the 14 kids erupt in applause. They learn the Latin root later, or side, and construct such English words as bilateral and quadrilateral. "Latin's going to open...
...Gore team would say, Is it too much to ask that every vote be counted? The short and sad answer to that is, Yes, it is. The voters didn't fail Al Gore, the system did, and there's not always a remedy for that...
...statement spun by his handlers as an acceptance of political responsibility for crimes committed by the armed forces during his 17-year reign, a Chilean judge on Friday charged Pinochet with kidnapping. The general is expected to be placed under house arrest shortly, and to go to court to answer charges arising out of the 1973 "caravan of death" - the series of incidents in which some 70 political detainees were abducted while in captivity in the weeks following Pinochet's seizure of power, and were never seen again. Pinochet faces 177 criminal complaints in his home country arising...