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...more than a decade now, scientists have been puzzling over these ice streams, and the consensus they have reached is both reassuring and disturbing. On one hand, they note, the overall rate at which the ice streams are transporting ice--at the relatively brisk clip of hundreds of feet a year--does not seem to have increased in recent decades. On the other hand, the streams have been extremely erratic--accelerating, decelerating, sometimes even stopping. And miles inland, the streams have shown surprising sensitivity to ocean tides, raising the specter that modest rises in sea level could accelerate their flow...
...consensus of those interviewed in "The Line King" is that Hirschfeld was a genial fellow who mingled freely with the subjects he scratched at, or caressed, with his pen. In as much as his illustration would typically be published while a show was in previews, and then he would attend the opening-night performance, he could hardly hide from the producers and angels. But why would he want to? Hirschfeld seemed perfectly at ease with himself, his work and his Great White World. He knew how hard it was to create a good play. In 1947 he had worked...
...even Borobudur may not be powerful enough to bring about a consensus that will satisfy the demands of capitalism and piety. Holy places attract big markets and arouse intense emotions. Jesus was so offended by the unseemly spectacle of commerce in the temple that he cast out the merchants and money changers, but today the piazza of St. Peter's in Rome teems with vendors selling plastic Piet?s. Paths are many; profit motive...
...chemical and biological files are very much open. There is almost a consensus among intelligence agencies that there are still chemical-and biological-weapons programs going on in Iraq. UNMOVIC [U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission] expected to get records of production, destruction, physical evidence of where remnants of some of the stuff has been destroyed. The declaration [and inspections so far] shed no new light on any of these issues. So that's why [UNMOVIC chief Hans] Blix keeps saying, "I don't have any evidence, but I cannot exclude the possibility." In light of the Iraqi past record...
...write they will, as Congress returns to wrestle with where to erect the guardrails around new reproductive technologies. There is a near consensus for outlawing what the Raelians claim to be doing--cloning one person's cells in order to grow a genetic replica--on the grounds that the risks are too great and the moral costs too high. But so far, no national ban has been passed because a fierce debate still surrounds other forms of research that borrow some of the same techniques. Supporters of "therapeutic cloning," in which embryos are cloned to harvest their stem cells...