Word: crackings
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Rifkin, however, was the exception. Few people seemed to be thinking of the Brave New World visions in which a totalitarian government creates whole subclasses of clones designed expressly for particular tasks. As Annas pointed out, there are better ways to create a crack Navy SEAL team or an astronaut corps than to clone the appropriate mix of sperm and egg and wait 20 years. "Maybe if this were Nazi Germany, we would worry more about the government," said Annas. "But we're in America, where we have the private market. We don't need government to make the nightmare...
...coincidence that police focus on the wealthy, instead of the drug houses which are the real centers of drug trafficking. The police will not fool around with dangerous crack houses if they can seize an innocuous millionaire's home...
...dispute that has been brewing between the Food and Drug Administration and the vitamin industry for two years -- and which reached Capitol Hill last week -- is more than Hollywood's latest cause celebre. Reports that the FDA was planning to crack down on supplements touched a nerve among the 75 million Americans who take vitamins, minerals and other dietary aids every day -- including large numbers of new-age leftists and right-wing libertarians who may disagree about almost everything else but who share a basic distrust of the government-medical complex. Over the past few months, thousands of letters, postcards...
Both candidates pay lip service to this new agenda. Giuliani, who made his reputation as a gang-busting U.S. Attorney during the Reagan Administration, talks up his plans to crack down on crooks, privatize government services and lower taxes. Such proposals, however, aren't markedly different from those offered by Dinkins, who trumpets a two-year decline in the city's crime rate, an improvement in some city services like the extension of library hours, and his record of balancing the budget every year since taking office...
...enough to remember when televisions were dumber than airport washbasins and didn't know you were standing in front of them unless you switched them on. But when I come home from a long day at the recycling plant, I still like to plop down on the ergolounger, crack open a microbrew, dial the teleputer to what we used to call a channel and just veg out. Don't get me wrong. I like the little programmable hostess who greets me every night on my flat-panel screen. In fact, since I upgraded to the new version...