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...nation's gross domestic product in 2002). It has also taken steps to protect the living coral breakwaters that shield the rest of the island chain. Among other things, it has banned the mining of coral stone that for centuries has been used by villagers to construct mosques and houses. But what the government can't control is the temperature of the surrounding ocean--and that does not bode well for the future...
...universities, then we can continue to stroke our antidefense image. But if we want to make defense policy in the White House and the Pentagon, then we had better stand for something." The party should point to some areas that need increased military spending, Aspin said, and should construct a positive defense policy around issues such as Pentagon reform. "The voters are not attracted to national security naysayers," he concluded sternly...
According to police, who confiscated $30,000 worth of computer equipment and hundreds of floppy disks, the youths had exchanged stolen credit card numbers, bypassed long-distance telephone fees, traded supposedly secret phone numbers (including those of top Pentagon officials) and published instructions on how to construct a letter bomb. But most remarkable of all, the first reports said, the youngsters had even managed to shift the orbit of one or more communications satellites. That feat, the New York Post decided, was worth a front-page headline: WHIZ KIDS ZAP U.S. SATELLITES...
...University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Richard Palmiter of the University of Washington in Seattle and their colleagues concocted a sort of two-part genetic mongrel. They fused a gene that produces rat growth hormone to a powerful regulatory switch cleaved from a mouse gene. That construct in hand, the scientists mated normal male and female mice, and then removed the fertilized eggs from the female before the egg and sperm nuclei had combined. Viewing the cell beneath a microscope and wielding a glass micropipette less than the width of a human hair, the researchers injected their fusion construct...
...dutifully completing their Core and concentration requirements in the most painless way possible. But for those of us who actively search for the courses that will change the way we think about ourselves and the world, the essential question looms—in only eight semesters, how do you construct a liberal arts education with just a course catalog, a CUE Guide and a vague notion of what you need to know...