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Then voices of doom proclaimed that these procedures would create life forms as threatening to our existence as nuclear weapons. Such false alarms held us back only a few years, however. By 1980 the immense powers of recombinant DNA were let loose for the public good. Soon they were to change irreversibly the faces of biology and medicine and bring modern biotechnology into existence...
...legendary Mayor Richard Daley, he ran the 1989 campaign that elected his older brother to that job. He has been pulling Clinton's coals out of the fire since 1992, when he flew to Clinton's side in New Hampshire just as the draft and Gennifer Flowers threatened to doom the candidate. Later he delivered Illinois to Clinton-Gore...
...close friendship has grown between McAuliffe and Clinton, two men who share a passion for food, storytelling, golf, three-dimensional Scrabble and ironic humor. When the 1994 G.O.P. takeover of Congress seemed to doom Clinton's hope for a second term, McAuliffe came to the rescue as finance chair of the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign, raising cash early to stave off challenges by Democratic rivals. Since then, the President has turned increasingly to McAuliffe as a trusted adviser as well as playmate, spending more time with McAuliffe than with anyone other than his wife and top aides...
...main character of his haunting fourth novel, Fay (Algonquin; 484 pages; $24.95), first appears, fleeing her abusive father. She is penniless, poorly educated and the bearer of an ill fate that brings tragedy into the life of every man who crosses her path. Among those who meet their doom after meeting Fay are Sam, a state trooper who brings her into his home after picking her up on the highway, and Aaron, a violent bouncer at a strip club in Biloxi...
...thing: they mainstreamed skin flicks with Behind the Green Door. The brothers Emilio Estevez (who directs here) and Charlie Sheen have done a remarkable thing too: they've rendered sex and drugs drop-dead boring. This interminable biopic follows the smuteurs through a rote spiral of success, addiction and doom, with porn-quality dialogue and laughably trippy camera work. We've seen all that before, and it's a good thing. If we had seen this first, it might have ruined porn for us forever...