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...Enter Ali G, a tracksuit-wearing "hip-hop journalist" and the alter ego of British comic Sacha Baron Cohen. Da Ali G Show (HBO, Friday nights, 12:30 a.m. E.T.) is a little like This Is Spinal Tap, if the doltish rockers were asking the questions. In one of a series of artfully staged (but real) newsmaker interviews, Ali asks former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros BoutrosGhali: "Which is the funniest language? It's French, innit?" When he asks a panel of religious leaders, "Isn't God just an overhyped David Blaine?" you swear one of the panelists, a Dick Cheney...
Fifteen years ago, I WOULD have put limits on what we would ever be able to do to alter our genes. Now I believe there are no limits--no technical limits anyway. Within the next half-century, and probably much sooner, we will have a complete understanding of what every gene does. We will also be able to repair individual genomes by replacing defective genes. This so-called germ-line genetic engineering is currently viewed with horror, but that will change as people realize that fixing the faulty gene that causes Huntington's disease in all future generations, for example...
...scowled like Bowery thugs, but they actually played some of the loopiest pop music ever made. Blitzkrieg Bop's famous "Hey! Ho! Let's go!" was an homage to the Bay City Rollers, while Joey--singer of the immortal line "I'm a Nazi schatze"--was the deadpan alter ego of Jeffrey Hyman, a nice Jewish boy from Queens...
...also said Cambridge residents should not alter their daily routines because of the national “orange” alert...
...social programs for the nation’s less affluent citizens. Reductions were made to Justice Department programs on juvenile delinquency, and money for public housing programs was cut. Over time, government-financed child care and children’s health insurance would be reduced. Bush also plans to alter Medicaid coverage so that many poor people, including some in nursing homes, would no longer be guaranteed benefits...