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...plans to take aim at federal environmental regulations that, Bush argues, limit power supplies by keeping plants from running at capacity. But taking on the green lobby could use up valuable capital at a time when Bush wants to press his domestic agenda. And his big problem is more basic: his energy policy is mostly just an oil-and-gas policy. He wants to use tax credits to boost domestic oil production, and he has a 10-year, $7.1 billion plan that includes drilling for petroleum on 1.5 million acres of protected Alaskan tundra in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
...Save the Last Dance" draws some of its core plot from a thousand other star- crossed-lovers stories (think Romeo and Juliet) and its basic style from a thousand other fast-cutting MTV-influenced films (think "Romeo and Juliet" as directed by Baz Luhrmann). Julia Stiles ("Ten Things I Hate About You") plays Sara, an aspiring dancer who, after a family tragedy, transfers from her comfortable suburban school to a mostly minority school in the inner city. Once there, she encounters Derek (played by Sean Patrick Thomas, previously seen in "Cruel Intentions"), a black student at her new school...
...part that's because, as ANDi's case proves, it's very difficult and expensive to do, and because the unexpected side effects of gene transfers will be hard to predict. Indeed, even conventional gene therapy, which doesn't change the basic germline, has become controversial since the death of Jesse Gelsinger in a gene-therapy trial at the University of Pennsylvania last year. Besides, scientists have much simpler ways to stave off at least some genetic diseases. Parents whose embryos have the gene for Tay-Sachs disease, for example, can test for that defect and never bring the embryo...
...provocative answer: what the Jesuits call holy effrontery. He argues that Bill Gates and his disciples are so convinced of the rightness of their cause that they can't even conceive that they might be wrong--or that any fairminded person could think so. And it's a basic tenet of holy effrontery that in defending their cause the righteous can use any means...
...give their quarter of a billion dollars to alleviate poverty (although it would be a world-class move), but I decry the values of a team that shells out vast sums of money to a 25-year-old athlete while its neighbors are desperately trying to meet their most basic survival needs. Surely we can find a better balance between maximizing profits for professional sports teams and seeking social justice. BARBARA H. BERGEN Los Angeles...