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-- Although gadfly activist Jeremy Rifkin failed in a legal attempt to delay the first human-gene-therapy experiment last year, he skillfully used the courts to set back by months, and even years, other scientific trials involving genetically engineered organisms or substances. His success in obstructing genetic experiments came despite...
Lackey, 20, is one of the 1,000 Milwaukee County welfare recipients who have been sent back to school since Republican Governor Tommy Thompson launched his Learnfare program in 1988. Learnfare is one of a spate of carrot-and-stick reforms intended to break long-term dependency on state and...
Though the practical results of Thompson's experiment are meager so far, other states -- like Ohio, Arkansas and Kansas -- are experimenting with economic incentives of their own. And under the influence of a Republican Administration that prefers self-help to government assistance, such ideas are likely to gain momentum.
The weary truth is that busybodyness is, as black radical H. Rap Brown once said of violence, as American as cherry pie. The Puritans, who began it all, had "a desperate and intolerant wish to cleanse the world of its impurities," editor Lewis Lapham of Harper's has written, and...
Then came former Senator John Tower of Texas, who was rejected as Secretary of Defense in part for decades-old, unverifiable boozy womanizing. As for drug use, the other major area of press scrutiny, Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas provides the most current guide. It is no longer disqualifying to...