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...Secret Of Life," Nancy Gibbs' thoughtful overview of how cracking the DNA code has totally changed our lives, raises the journalistic bar for all magazine writers. She made the miracle of gene science appealing to creationists, evolutionists, businessmen and homemakers. Her essay is as beautiful as the structure of the DNA molecule. DOUGLAS TAIT Beach Haven...
...Though it's a challenge to illustrate the microscopic intricacies of the genetic code, some readers reminded us how much trickier it is to depict DNA's outward expression in the human form. "Is that Adam and Eve on the cover?" asked a Minnesotan. "Then those belly buttons have got to go." An "appalled" Missouri man agreed that the image showed too much; he declared it "pornographic." But in anticipation of such a reaction, a reader in El Salvador counseled, "To all those who would complain: the human body is beautiful and nothing to be ashamed of. Lighten...
...important - and most immediate - steps that Lula needs to take are pension and tax reform. Brazil has a millstone public bureaucracy: its salaries and pensions take more than 8% of the nation's $1 trillion gross domestic product. Reining in the corrupt pension system, simplifying Brazil's baroque tax code and combatting massive tax evasion could help Lula drop interest rates and free up at least $5 billion - more than half of Brazil's entire education budget - for projects like Zero Hunger. "This government's macroeconomic approach has been impeccable," says Paulo Leme, head of emerging market analysis at Goldman...
...make a wallet out of any leftover tape. "I don't want to spend six weeks holed up in my bedroom with a roll of duct tape and a bottle of water," says Bob Merrick, a Hollywood production assistant, "because someone came on TV and said we're on code red. Then they'll go back on TV and say it was a mistake. I'll have wasted six weeks of my life, and the next...
...Excellence, a start-up agency based in Malaga, Spain, is posting unsolicited grades on management-rating.com with the goal of eventually soliciting business from firms that want ethics audits. With M&E's ratings system, companies lose points if no information is available for a particular metric, like a corporate code of ethics...