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At first glance, McKinnon is an unlikely messenger for the G.O.P. cause. With the air of the Nashville singer-songwriter he once was, he is the kind of hep-cat presence that red-meat Republicans like to mock. A longtime Democratic consultant, based in Austin, Texas, who grew so disillusioned...
No wonder so many American artists have written, sung, painted and even gone round the bend, gone mad, in the name of rivers. In his overboard essay on Huck and Jim, Leslie Fiedler wrote that the river supports "the American dream of isolation afloat." Out of that isolation in motion...
By contrast, when scientists from Craig Venter's Celera Genomics and the Human Genome Project announce that they're finished sequencing the genome--which they are scheduled to do this week--the milestone will be a lot murkier. That's because they're not really finished. What the scientists at...
In March, Venter eased the minds of other scientists by releasing the Drosophila data; moreover, he had done the research in collaboration with Gerald Rubin, now vice president for biomedical research at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and highly respected at DOE and NIH. "Rubin reassured us all that this...
When Kim Jong Il succeeded his father as leader of North Korea six years ago, he was lampooned by the rest of the world as a pudgy playboy who drank cognac while his countrymen barely subsisted, many of them reduced to eating roots. He favored James Bond and Daffy Duck...