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Trying to repeat his brave defense of American economic interests against environmentalism at Rio, Bush represents himself as the laissez-faire man. But what was courageous in Rio is short-sighted now. Regulations like the Endangered Species Act similarly pose a conflict between environment and economy, and Bush has rightly pointed out the absurdity of saying to American businesses, "You can't build a factory here because we're protecting the grass." What Bush fails to realize, however, is that not all environmental regulations conflict with business interests...
...then, hundreds of farmers in Arkansas alone have signed on, many of them paying dues anonymously. "Yes, I'm afraid," says grower Don Allen, a leader of the Arkansas movement. "And that's a terrible thing to say in the land of the free and the home of the brave." Last February a Tyson memo to managers urged them to spread the word that the organizing was being led by "shady characters" such as socialists and animal-rights activists...
...YEAR AGO, AS AMERICANS watched the confrontation between Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas, pundits offered two visions of the future. One camp, using words like crusading, empowering and galvanizing, hailed the sexual-harassment hearings as a nationwide consciousness-raising session. They predicted that Hill's brave performance would both embolden other women to come forward with grievances and promote greater sensitivity in the workplace. The other camp warned that the spectacle of 14 white male Senators grilling a young black woman with sometimes rude, often embarrassing, rarely knowledgeable questions would deter other women from lodging harassment complaints. Pointing to polls...
...also produced better engines of death and destruction turned speculation about the future excessively sour. Bellamy's radiant city became the high-tech slave societies of Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We and Fritz Lang's silent film Metropolis. Aldous Huxley perfected the notion of dystopia in 1932 with Brave New World, and George Orwell weighed in with his haunting classic...
...children and the evaporation of the time families spend together, another way may eventually evolve. It may be quicker and more efficient to dispense with family-based reproduction. Society could then produce its future generations in institutions that might resemble the state-sponsored baby hatcheries in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. People of any age or marital status could submit their genetic material, pay a fee, perhaps apply for a permit and then produce offspring. "Embryos could be brought to fetal and infant stage all in the laboratory, outside the womb," says Cornish. "Once ready, the children could...