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...addition to the host of valid ecological and ethical objections to modifying other organisms, this case also points out some of the unacceptable technological flaws with biotechnology. Technologies whose side effects cannot be completely controlled fail to meet all of the purposes for which they were created, and therefore are insufficient. When a Pentium chip, for example, makes a mistake every million calculations, it's immediately recalled because its effects are unpredictable...
...government can spend billions on a single space mission, but it cannot dedicate more funds for capable foster care? The average car buyer does more research on the auto he or she wants to buy than states do in researching potential foster parents. There are millions of people out there who have loving homes for abused and unwanted children. I hope your investigation opened a lot of eyes and shames the states into major reforms. Which is more important: our future--our children--or exploring the possibility of colonizing space? JANE MCFADDEN San Antonio, Texas...
...untucked short-sleeve patterned shirt that is, frankly, a little loud - and he is fumbling through the tattered leather backpack he always carries, looking desperately for a light. Gibson smokes. He has tried hypnotists and nicotine gum and such, but quitting remains perhaps the one thing Mel Gibson cannot do. At 44 he has won two Oscars (as director and producer of the 1995 "Braveheart"). He has been married to the same woman, Robyn Gibson, since 1980 and fathered seven children, including son Thomas, born last year. Through his 11-year-old company, he co-produced this year's well...
...cannot conceive of anyone sending their children anywhere where they might be open to indoctrination by Communist professors," McCarthy said of Harvard...
...exemplified in 1997, when Rich turned down the National Medal for the Arts offered to her by President Clinton. In a letter printed in The New York Times, Rich wrote that "art..means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage... A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while people at large are so dishonored...