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Gene patents, to be sure, can be useful. Without them, the private sector wouldn't ante up the billions of dollars needed to drive biotechnology. But critics feel that far too many patents are being issued on DNA sequences whose commercial use is unclear. Though the Patent and Technology Office is trying to reduce the number of approvals it issues, no one doubts the courts will eventually have to step in. But now the rush is on to patent every gene in sight...
...ones--the preferable outcome in a case of private lives torn apart by politics. Best, of course, if the son and the father's new family could come to settle in America. Or better still: live in a Cuba without Castro or communism. That day will come, though no one is holding his breath...
...music industry and Britain's class system. (Ironically, at test screenings, some teens thought it was fiction.) In Filth's strangest, most poignant moment, he breaks down crying while discussing Sid Vicious, the bandmate he lost to heroin. "I care about anyone dying a stupid death," he says, though he fought to snip his sobbing from the final cut. Says director Julien Temple: "I argued that this moment that seemed like pathetic weakness was actually a window into his humanity...
...remembered this the other day when I was talking with a college student about Vietnam. I mentioned the Tet offensive. I was astonished (though I should not have been) to realize she had never heard of Tet. I remember every minute of Tet, in early 1968, when the entire South Vietnamese countryside erupted with the Communist offensive and when, back in the States, you could see the war turning 180 degrees and becoming, suddenly, a disaster in the minds of the men who had made and supported American policy. The light at the end of the tunnel went...
...memory recedes at generational warp speed. Those who remember, remember. But a senior in college now was born three or four years after Saigon fell and changed its name to Ho Chi Minh City. I see the black POW-MIA flag still flying (though frayed) above a post office or police barracks in Massachusetts. No one raised an outcry of political correctness when John McCain referred some weeks ago to his North Vietnamese jailers as "gooks" - the feeling being, I guess, that his years at the Hanoi Hilton earned him a pass...