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Mass arrests without charge, curfews, home and crop destruction, torture, beatings, deportations, teargassing of hospitals. The Iraqi occupation of Kuwait? No, the Israeli occupation of Palestine. But still, even after more that 750 Palestinian civilians have been killed by Israeli officials, Israeli apologists such as Joseph Enis ("Arab Activists Massacred the Facts," October 11) have no excuse but the usual: the Arabs started it, Israel has to defend itself, and anyone saying otherwise is guilty of "nothing less than blood libel against the Jewish state." Fortunately, the world is getting tired of blaming the victims...
...Francisco lawyer who began as the team's general counsel and is now, at 42, general manager of the sport's dominant franchise. Says Alderson: "We needed to build up a scouting system, develop quality players in our farm system and expand it." From the farm came a bumper crop: Canseco, McGwire and wizard shortstop Walt Weiss, who would be voted American League Rookies of the Year...
...this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved nearly 100 test plantings of crops that have been genetically altered to give them traits such as pest resistance and tolerance to weed killers. More ambitious projects are envisioned, among them adding protein to staples like corn and changing the type of oil produced by soybeans. Pigs that grow faster and leaner and cows that manufacture medicine in their milk are other goals. Observes Arnold Foudin, a biotechnology specialist at the USDA: "Ideas that a short while ago might have been dismissed as harebrained Buck Rogers are now being taken quite...
...pathologist Roger Beachy is working on introducing genes for disease resistance into cassava, a critical food source for much of Africa. Scientists at the International Potato Center in Peru and the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines are applying the tools of genetic engineering to improve the major crops of South America and Asia. Before the middle of the next century, experts warn, world population may reach 10 billion, and agriculture had better keep up. By that time, the planet's crop and livestock growers will probably have new environmental challenges to meet, among them a changing climate...
...gulf crisis makes headlines, but it has also produced a crop of strange and little noticed war stories...