Word: america
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...Nobody has reported any adverse effects from irradiation," says TIME science writer Frederic Golden. And given the abandon with which America has embraced its microwave ovens, one could be forgiven for underestimating the public outcry that greeted the idea of irradiation several years ago. The meat industry, which will invest huge sums creating the infrastructure necessary for irradiation, is hoping Americans have gotten over their fear of treated meat. "Unlike the so-called Frankenfoods, which involve genetic alterations, irradiation is pretty standard stuff," says Golden. And, he adds, zapping meat is, ostensibly, a public health measure. Issues of safety aside...
...traditionally, the party of campaign finance reform. So while Senator John McCain's insurgency may earn him a place in America's hearts as an alternative to politics-as-usual, it is unlikely to win him the Republican nomination. The senator from Arizona went mano a manowith George W. Bush on campaign finance reform during Monday night's GOP candidates' debate in Iowa, forcing the Texas governor to defend the party's reliance on corporate "soft money." But while McCain may have claimed the moral high ground, that high ground may actually be outside of the GOP's boundary fence...
...stayaway by senior White House officials may be a concession to domestic political concerns. The canal once symbolized America's ability to project its power abroad, and conservative Republicans have questioned the wisdom of giving it up. Some Republican legislators - and Pat Buchanan - have even used the fact that Hong Kong-based port company Hutchison Whampoa will manage the facility for Panama to suggest that the strategic waterway may fall under Chinese control in the event of a crisis. Even though that scenario is dismissed as far-fetched by Panamanians and most U.S. analysts, the White House is clearly taking...
...particularly widespread in the South, keep the lesson simple: Sex before marriage is wrong, and contraception does very little to keep pregnancies or STDs at bay. Critics charge that abstinence programs ignore the realities of teenage sex and, by keeping kids in the dark about safe sex, contribute to America's relatively high incidence of teen STDs and pregnancy...
...America's poet of the piano plays 15 of Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte (literally, Songs Without Words), plus eight Bach-Busoni and Schubert-Liszt transcriptions. The hand injury that threatened to sideline Perahia only a few short years ago is now nothing but a fast-fading memory: the poise and lyricism of the exquisite playing heard on this meltingly beautiful CD are worthy of comparison with any of the century's greatest pianists. His tone is warm and inviting, his interpretations quietly romantic. Vladimir Horowitz--who once gave Perahia a few pointers--would have reveled in the results...