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...Venter and biotechnology gave this old guy the willies. Does anyone remember the cautionary tale Frankenstein? We might have absolutely no control over the creature we create. If it harms us, would that be the inevitable end point of having eaten the fruit of knowledge? Jonathan McPhee, St. Petersburg, Florida...
...World War against Bing Crosby’s rendition of “Brother Can You Spare a Dime?” Though he finds the song “surprisingly applicable” to the looming economic recession, Rakoff is more upbeat about the recent electoral turnaround in Florida, claiming to be overjoyed. He’s a resident of New York City since 1983 and a dual American-Canadian citizen since 2003 and a professed liberal. “I’m so glad that reason somehow prevailed, and that [Rudy Giuliani] is no longer...
...wunderkind Marc Ronson. And if you think she’s a little too stylin’ and lacks substance, listen to “L.E.S. Artistes,” a sardonic, on-point criticism of bullshit hipsters that nonetheless manages to be hip.To round it all out, Jacksonville, Florida group Black Kids have put out a remarkable demo entitled “Wizards of Ahhhs.” Available for free at blackkidsmusic.com, the four tracks on the EP are bright and impassioned, the kind you want to shout along to at an outdoor festival. Their songs instantly recall...
...Regardless of whether overwhelming conservative support comes, McCain can already feel the effects of being a bona fide front-runner. The campaign raised $7 million in January, including $1 million the first day after the Florida win. The campaign itself has also grown exponentially, from the 20-30 people (including press) who were traveling regularly with the Senator early in the month to the approximately 95 who piled onto the chartered Jet Blue Airbus 320 that flew the whole show from Newark to San Diego and finally to Phoenix on Super Tuesday. After a crowded, chaotic press conference featuring Rudy...
...with the systems in the other 46 states? Confusion and ambiguity plague the process. The price of postage varies from state to state, and is even inconsistent within states. The postage required for an absentee ballot in Los Angles, for example, costs 41 cents, whereas in some counties in Florida, returning the ballot by mail costs $1.14. Voting officials place the burden of determining and correctly placing postage for these ballots on students who, living in an age when young people almost never visit the post office, may not even know the price of a stamp. Indeed, in talking...