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Whether they met on MTV's "Celebrity Death Match" or at a Council on Foreign Affairs debate, Condoleezza Rice would single-handedly wipe the floor with the Clinton foreign policy tag team of Madeleine Albright and Sandy Berger...
...chief and someone who can provide a steady hand in foreign policy despite his lack of experience in the field." Yet on a night that felt a little like a restoration to some, NYT buries the presence of Ford-Reagan-Bush and their highlight film well below Condie Rice...
...sooner had the deal been made than the critics of agricultural biotechnology erupted. "A rip-off of the public trust," grumbled the Rural Advancement Foundation International, an advocacy group based in Winnipeg, Canada. "Asian farmers get (unproved) genetically modified rice, and AstraZeneca gets the 'gold.'" Potrykus was dismayed by such negative reaction. "It would be irresponsible," he exclaimed, "not to say immoral, not to use biotechnology to try to solve this problem!" But such expressions of good intentions would not be enough to allay his opponents' fears...
...including the transgenic foods created through genetic engineering, are potential sources of allergens. That's because the transferred genes contain instructions for making proteins, and not all proteins are equal. Some--those in peanuts, for example--are well known for causing allergic reactions. To many, the possibility that golden rice might cause such a problem seems farfetched, but it nonetheless needs to be considered...
...Potrykus sees it, there is no question that agricultural biotechnology can be harnessed for the good of humankind. The only question is whether there is the collective will to do so. And the answer may well emerge as the people of the world weigh the future of golden rice...