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...worth about $52 billion. Why did it take so long for Monsanto to find its mate, and why was Pharmacia willing to take it on? The answers lie in Monsanto's agri-chemical division, a successful but controversial arm of the company, which is the target of a bitter alarmist campaign aimed at its genetically modified crops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bride of Frankenfoods | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...just being an alarmist. Seriously, doesn't this scare you? 'Cause it scares the bejeebers out of me. And you know what? There's still time for another weird incident. The week isn't over...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Truth Is Stranger Than... | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

Stewart's copious findings indicate that hospitals fired Swango rather than risk liability suits and damaging publicity. But such butt covering does not support the subtitle's alarmist indictment of "the medical establishment." Yet the need to buck up Stewart's new book with a sensational subtitle is understandable. In his 1991 best seller, Den of Thieves, the author had the advantage of writing about financiers Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, two super-rich felons rarely out of the limelight. Swango resists efforts to come alive on the page. He is a shadowy figure, an evasive loner with bizarre obsessions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bad Medicine | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

Associate Professor of Government Payton S.Wild gave an alarmist lecture about the nuclearrace and the potential for what The Crimson calleda "Gestapo situation" in the United States inApril...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Red-Baiting Escalated in Late 1940s | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...sober morning-after appraisal of the available information is not so chilling (one-third of the Cox report remains classified). Sizable numbers of arms-control experts, intelligence agents and FBI officials regard much of the tome as biased and alarmist and disagree with many of its central claims. But even they agree that the report lays out a real problem: for decades China has been running an intensive intelligence-collection effort targeting an array of U.S. military and commercial technologies. Nor does anyone doubt that Beijing has acquired both by stealth and by legitimate means pieces of hardware and information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Cold War? | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

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