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While many conservatives see anti-Iraq Democrats as McGovern's spawn, they're a very different breed. Pelosi and Reid aren't against the war on terrorism; their Iraq-withdrawal bill actually increases funding for Afghanistan. Today's antiwar movement doesn't raise a middle finger at the Pentagon. In fact, Democratic leaders say they're defending an American military ravaged by too many deployments and too little funding. And if today's Democrats aren't McGovern, today's Republicans aren't Nixon. George W. Bush isn't winding the Iraq war down; he's ratcheting...
...effects have been largely positive: vastly increased food supplies. But the effects of modified insects are largely unknown. Would insect predators be affected? Would the mosquitoes better transmit other illnesses? More research is needed, but some effects might not be known unless the mosquitoes are actually allowed to breed in the wild...
Humans have been overhauling some species’ genetic compositions—far more substantially than the dinky addition of a gene or two—since the beginning of civilization. Every year, farmers select the most bountiful individual plants and animals and breed their offspring to produce the next generation. Modern grain and livestock species look nothing like their ancestors from 10,000 years...
...were behind going into the last round,” Zeckhauser said in an interview on Friday. “We had played 104 hands and just had to wait and see how the other team played.” Finally, Zeckhauser and his partner—Mildred Breed of Austin, Texas—triumphed by a slim margin...
...Speaker Events for IRC Campus Outreach, said that he made contact with Blix through a parliamentarian in the Swedish Liberal party. Alonso, a native of Sweden, belongs to the Liberal party and served on the Gavle City Council before coming to Harvard. “Swedish liberals are a breed close to extinction” Alsonso said, referring to Blix. “I’m proud to have him.” “He’s probably the most internationally well known and well-regarded Swede,” he added. Though Blix devoted most...