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...Salient publisher Bronwen C. McShea '02, the union of Christ and His Church. Looking for good metaphors is a silly way to go about moral reasoning, and with legions of gender theorists and lit-crit folks in the wings, it seems inevitable that equally good metaphors will eventually crop up on the other side. Absent some new arguments on campus--and I'd be delighted to read them--the only real attack seems to be that homosexuality is unnerving. I'll admit it: homosexual acts do unnerve me. But so do a lot of things other straight people...
...Swaminathan, architect of the Indian "green revolution" in the late 1960s that doubled crop yields in just four years, painted a confident picture on Friday of sustained rises in agricultural output in the developing world, fueled by genetically-modified foods and other new technologies...
Though he said no such crops have been approved for planting in India, Swaminathan predicted genetically-engineered crops would gain approval there within the next five or six years. He said they would cause crop yields to climb consistently over the next 50 years...
Clemente is also certain that this current crop of Crimson players can develop and win. In fact, he thinks they almost have to develop the current cagers...
...limited missile shield, but the Bush Administration has said bluntly that while it's willing to talk over the details, its mind is made up. Disputes are looming about how to rejigger sanctions against Iraq and over which countries should next get into nato. There's a bumper crop of noisy trade issues too, and all of them tread on sensitive domestic toes: bananas, R and D subsidies for Boeing and Airbus, the genetically modified grub Americans are happy to swallow but Europeans denounce as "Frankenfood...