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...discussed the work of our company in your story "Make Way for Frankenfish!" While the article was balanced, the headline was inflammatory. The word Frankenfood and its derivatives were coined by those avowedly opposed to any application of the new technology to food products. The use of prejudicial words is an attempt to instill fear rather than promote reasoned discussion. Gene modification has the potential to be one of the most important and beneficial tools to increase the quantity and nutritional value of food. In the case of A/F Protein's AquAdvantage fish, which reaches adult size in half...
GORE: (via e-mail) "I challenge you to accept my proposal that we both reject the use of soft money to run issue ads...I also challenge you to take a further step. Let's agree to forgo all campaign advertising and instead agree to a regular series of debates on the major issues facing the country." March...
...years and more than 300 arrests, were unable to determine after the first barrage that their suspect had not fired a single shot. If cooler heads had prevailed, wouldn't Diallo still be alive today? As trained professionals, police officers must be able to assess situations, not simply use deadly force against anything threatening. The verdict in the Diallo case at a minimum should have been "guilty of reckless endangerment." Now, anyone could fall victim to impetuous and rash policing. BEVERLY JACKSON Laurel...
...bullish on the Net. But he's more like a skeptical consumer. "There's a lot of plumage here, but I wonder if the beast underneath isn't still pretty scrawny," he says, pointing out that the Net is still too slow and hard for many people to use. King, a Macintosh user, couldn't download his book, which came out only in PC-readable formats. "This is a good illustrative example of all the potential that so-called e-commerce has, and then the reality of the situation," he says. "In point of fact, what e-commerce has been...
BEING SAFE Though 9 out of 10 teens say it's important to use contraception every time they have sex, surveys show that one-third don't. Teens polled by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy cite pressure from partners and drinking as the main reasons they do not protect themselves. The campaign urges parents to discuss contraception with their teens. It offers suggestions at its website, teenpregnancy.org...