Word: fails
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...disease. And despite the benefits to both farmers and consumers, some opponents continue leveling absurd charges against GMOs and holding them to impossible standards. In his Dec. 4 column "Biotechnology: Bad Technology" Rohan R. Gulrajani argued that GMOs are wrong because "technologies whose side effects cannot be completely controlled fail to meet all the purposes for which they were created and therefore are insufficient." This argument suggests that aspirin should be banned because of the risk of Reye's syndrome and airplanes should be grounded because of risk of a crash. Buffer zones between fields and separate processing facilities...
...doing her laundry when the power began to fail...
...indisputable that ballot-counting machines routinely fail to count many legitimate ballots. The Governor of Texas, one George W. Bush, signed a law treating dimpled chads as legitimate votes; the Republican candidate, George W. Bush, now realizes that only a desperate Democrat could take such a position. However, some ballots uncounted by the machines are legitimate by any standard. The Gore position is: in a tight race, let's count every legitimate ballot (and argue about the close calls). The Bush position is: throw them all away...
...doing this on NBC, the budget would be a few hundred grand more and it would be easier to do, and it'd be off the air in about six weeks. The idea was to not be canceled this time." And if TV Funhouse does fail? "I'll pick up the best pieces and move on," he says. "You can kill a show, but you can't kill an idea as good as a puppet having sex with an animal...
...might think this would be a point in favor of hypertext links, those ubiquitous wormholes of the Web. Not so, says Card's team: its research shows the average user gets confused by blue underlined words, and that these links too often fail to communicate exactly where they're taking you. So what's the solution? Ask Card, and he will point to the screen shot of an enormous multisided shape his team jokingly refers to as the Death Star...