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...These people are biologically illiterate -- environmentally illiterate -- and yet they may fancy themselves well informed, perhaps sophisticated. They may know business trends or politics, yet haven't the faintest idea of what makes the natural world tick. We have biologists, of course, and biochemists. But we really need more bio-engineers, bio-lawyers and bio-politicians...
...speak-outs are an attempt to emphasize the personal rather than the political side of the pro-choice movement. Criticizing antiabortion activists, Nanette Falkenberg, executive director of NARAL, says, "No one is talking to women and men who have made a decision on this. They are interviewing doctors, theologians, bio-ethicists. But the real experts are the men and women who decide. That perspective makes the issue real." According to NARAL, 1.5 million women a year choose to have an abortion. Advertisements for the movement show three women of different ages and races, one of them holding a baby...
...Someone took $30 cash from a purse left in a desk drawer at the Bio Labs between 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Monday...
...Also in the Bio Labs, someone stole a purse containing $100-bill and various credit cards from an office. Police have no suspects in either case...
...channel's BBC shows were worth importing. A&E's most highly touted mini-series of the winter is Freud, a six-part bio-drama about the father of modern psychoanalysis (played by David Suchet). But the promising subject has been turned into plodding and uninspired drama, all furrowed brows and discordant cellos. Another British multiparter, The Old Men at the Zoo, adapted from Angus Wilson's satirical novel about an impending nuclear disaster, is a musty spoof of British politics and manners whose wit has not survived the transatlantic crossing...