Word: chickening
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...course, the President and his party may try to exploit the inevitable outrage from this defeat. But actually there's another way for them to make chicken salad out of something you are now allowed to say in prime time. They could call off the decency crusade. They could say it's a good thing to protest idiotic crudity--on the radio, on TV or on the Senate floor--but to legislate against it is another matter. They could embrace the civil libertarians to whom they inadvertently handed...
...rest of us. For years public-health officials have been raising the alarm about how our overreliance on antibiotics is breeding a generation of superbugs, increasingly resistant to the medicines designed to kill them. The problem has only gotten worse as antibiotic use has expanded to agriculture, where cattle, chicken and fish are routinely treated with the drugs to keep infectious diseases in check...
...result, for example, of a drought that cuts the yield, then ethanol distillers, cattle feeders, hog and dairy farmers will be the first to pay the price. Shelling out more for corn would eventually translate into more expensive ethanol, as well as higher prices for beef, pork, chicken, eggs and milk--movement that the market is already seeing. Hormel Foods, for instance, recently warned investors that higher grain costs were eating into its bottom line...
...doom and gloom? Part of this Chicken Little complex can be explained by rose-tinted nostalgia, but such pessimism also reflects deep-rooted self-doubt, a certain suspicion of man’s ability to handle his promethean powers. Caution transforms suffering into virtue and material progress into sin; this psychology of self-denial suggests that we are sowing the seeds of our future destruction with our present prolificacy. If this sentiment merely led individuals to forswear their own possessions, it would be rather harmless for society. But unfortunately, the modern ascetic impulse informs a wide range of misguided policy...
...world speaking to teenagers in well-appointed high school auditoriums, he was forced to be resourceful on Roatan, where the municipal hospital has no running water and many of the Hispanic and Afro-Caribbean residents believe that they can get HIV by stepping on a chicken bone that has a hex on it. "It was totally heartbreaking when I first came here, and talked to teenagers who have HIV," says Fried, a former Broadway actor who has been living with the virus for nearly twenty years and has seen 134 friends and acquaintances die from AIDS-related causes...