Word: dixons
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Millions of Americans, mostly in the red states, if you recall your election charts, lost a hero the instant the black car veered violently into the wall. Every major newspaper south of the Mason-Dixon Line rushed to put out a special section, while millions living north of that line wondered what the big deal...
...took 277 tries, and right up until her birth, scientists around the world were saying that cloning a mammal from an adult cell was impossible. "There's a significant gap between what scientists are willing to talk about in public and their private aspirations," says British futurist Patrick Dixon. "The law of genetics is that the work is always significantly further ahead than the news. In the digital world, everything is hyped because there are no moral issues?there is just media excitement. Gene technology creates so many ethical issues that scientists are scared stiff of a public reaction...
...took 277 tries, and right up until her birth, scientists around the world were saying that cloning a mammal from an adult cell was impossible. "There's a significant gap between what scientists are willing to talk about in public and their private aspirations," says British futurist Patrick Dixon. "The law of genetics is that the work is always significantly further ahead than the news. In the digital world, everything is hyped because there are no moral issues--there is just media excitement. Gene technology creates so many ethical issues that scientists are scared stiff of a public reaction...
Meanwhile, south of the Mason-Dixon line...Joseph T. Smitherman was the segregationist mayor of Selma, Ala., during the famous 1965 civil rights march, but by all accounts he wasn't the worst of segregationists and played no role in the beatings that occurred. As times changed, Smitherman's politics were right enough to appeal to Selma's white voters and centrist enough that he didn't get thrown out as an anachronism. He was running for a 10th re-election when, on Sept. 12 at age 70, he finally came up on the short end of a vote. James...
DIED. JULIAN DIXON, 66, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee and a senior member of the congressional Black Caucus who represented his west Los Angeles district for 22 years; of an apparent heart attack; in Los Angeles. A strong civil rights advocate and lobbyist for the District of Columbia, Dixon served on congressional ethics and defense-spending committees...