Word: coulds
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...graphic with your story "The Y2K Bug: Do We Still Have to Worry?" [LIVING, Nov. 29] stated that Virgin Atlantic has halted "flights for 24 hours." This could mislead readers into thinking our airline is not flying because we might have Y2K fears. This is as far from the truth as you can get. We at Virgin Atlantic Airways decided many months ago to allow our employees the time off. Our passengers and staff always give us the best advice on how to run the airline, and the millennium is no exception. Both groups told us they want to celebrate...
Thank you for your article about the self-sterilizing "terminator" seed and the bioengineering of the foods we eat [TRADE WARS, Nov. 29]. The concept science has created is both fascinating and scary. Fascinating because new varieties of plants could help decrease the need for pesticides and herbicides. They could also boost food production. Scary because the scientists can't truthfully tell us what the consequences of eating this food might be. They don't know what will happen when wild crops are cross-pollinated by bioengineered crops. People have the right to know what is in the food they...
...pamphlet. Your reporting of a Food and Drug Administration public hearing on biotechnology quoted no government scientists or university experts who discussed the safety of the technology. What's most appalling, though, is that you ended your piece with a warning that food producers might uproot an industry that could help feed the world if they overreact to "fears fanned by well-fed consumers." Articles headlined "Who's Afraid of Frankenfood?" serve only to fan those fears. C. MANLY MOLPUS PRESIDENT AND CEO Grocery Manufacturers of America Washington...
NELSON MANDELA In a century that has produced so many leaders of unconscionable evil, I am proud to nominate as Person of the Century one who helped reaffirm our basic faith in humanity: former South African President Mandela. After suffering more than 25 years in prison, Mandela could easily have answered the brutality of apartheid with violence and hate. Instead, he responded with an unwavering vision of peace and reconciliation. By transcending the horrors of his time, he not only brought freedom to South Africa, he also reflected the very best of the human spirit. I've had an opportunity...
...wish I could offer George W. Bush some advice about how to fend off efforts to portray him as a dimwit, but even Dan Quayle rejected the only slogan I came up with when he had a similar problem: "Definitely Not the Dumbest Guy in the Deke House." Political pundits are warning us that the public is in danger of seeing all the presidential candidates as caricatures--McCain as a hothead, for instance, and Gore as a manlike object and Forbes as a terminal dork. Just who might be responsible for leaving the voters with these impressions...