Word: fears
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Gutierrez, the family spokesman and a veteran political operator with a heavy touch of Joe McCarthy in him, angrily accused ABC of reneging on a promise to broadcast that very statement. The next morning, the network aired it. And by week's end another family spokesman said Elian "expresses fear about being with his father. He's afraid he will be punished." Now, who could have put that idea in his head...
More than vanity is at stake. If Venter's Celera wins what has become an increasingly bitter competition, government scientists fear, the human genome will be entangled in patent and licensing battles as rival drug firms seek protection for agents they are hoping to develop from the newly emerging genetic blueprint. With the announcement last week by Collins' team, though, these concerns are subsiding because Collins has been making the data public as he goes by putting it on the Internet every day. Says Lander: "Now there is no doubt that a genome will be freely available...
...Even if a hefty fine for turnstile jumping seems draconian in comparison with other cities' policies, no civil liberties are violated if an existing law is aggressively but uniformly enforced. The "broken windows" theory articulated by James Q. Wilson and George Kelling is not intrinsically problematic: disorder does cause fear, which eliminates social control, inviting illicit activities. And it seems to be working: violent crime is down 49 percent in New York, compared with seven percent in Chicago and six percent in Philadelphia...
...anchor a counteroffensive against Washington's incremental moves to relax the embargo. No sooner was the boy out of the hospital than his face had appeared on posters printed by exile activists to protest Cuba's attendance at World Trade Organization talks in the U.S. last December. But while fear of messy protests may have kept Castro away from Seattle, the exiles are being forced to confront the reality that he has, for the most part, broken out of the international isolation they had hoped would force his overthrow - and that's a bitter pill to swallow for the generation...
...right now, I can't be bothered with that. The gangly kid with the "No Fear" shirt and a money belt looks green, so I need to step up my psychic efforts. What part of the bull was that again...