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Agassiz Professor of Zoology Richard C. Lewontin '50-'51 and Professor of Biology Daniel L. Hartl object to the forensic use of DNA finger-printing, or profiling. They contend that the accuracy claimed by current statistical techniques is overstated...
...Operation Vigilant Warrior steamed into the Persian Gulf, Clinton's sweet victory became so sticky? The President won near universal praise for a fast and firm response to Saddam's latest challenge to Kuwait's security. But the minute the enemy seemed to be tamed, he had to contend with rambunctious allies: France and Russia, having condemned Saddam's latest gambit, tried to block any effort to punish him for it. Iraqi troops did pull back, but not all the way. That left Clinton searching for some way to secure victory without firing a shot, while ensuring that this time...
...with recorded auction prices of $3 million and up, he must be the most fashionable abstract painter alive. Born in Lexington, Virginia, in 1928, Twombly belongs to the generation of American artists that followed Abstract Expressionism and had to contend, Oedipus-like, with its influence; he is the Third Man, a shadowy figure, beside that vivid duumvirate of his friends Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. But unlike them, he made his life in Europe. After some gestation in one of the wombs of the postwar American avant-garde, Black Mountain College in North Carolina, he went to Italy...
...Nerd is long on physical humor but short on substance. Although it by no means aims at social commentary and instead just wants to have fun, more parallels could have been made to emphasize women's roles during these infantile acts. Director Jeremy Dauber has three worlds to contend with--Axl and Tansy, the Tiki crew, and Steadman--but in balancing their neuroses, he fails to flesh out their personalities fully. More subtle differences between gender and social class need to be incorporated into the characters' demeanor so that there can be more tension brooding before it explodes. Some...
...many experts, the debate over who wins and loses as U.S. companies build factories abroad misses the point. The shift of expertise and capital, they contend, is inevitable. "The underlying skills in China are so great that any American company that transfers technology will create rivals," says Roy ( Grow, a political scientist at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. The solution, Grow adds, is for American firms to develop new know-how faster than they can give away their skills...