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--By Scott MacLeod, Azadeh Moaveni and Douglas Waller/U.N.
Wish Upon a Star As befitted an evening of heavyweight entertainment industry support for the Democrats, the musicians were introduced by a plethora of movie stars. Some, such as Michael Douglas, Jessica Lange and Harrison Ford, showed seasoned chops in blending introductions and political endorsements. Lange spoke to the need...
The evening started with a lengthy introduction by the three entertainment industry moguls who conceived and produced the event. Michael Douglas brought on what he called the "Three Divas" - VH1 chief John Sykes, Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner and main instigator Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax Films. The trio...
Galen Hamilton, a tall, fourth-generation logger, contemplates the timbered mountains (ponderosa pine, Douglas fir) where he grew up around Horseshoe Bend, Idaho. He points to vast, unregenerated bald patches burned off in earlier fires he blames on Forest Service fecklessness, and speaks bitterly about Washington's clueless authoritarianism (so...
Enough with the hackneyed song-and-dance routine about genetically modified crops being designed to feed the poor and nourish the hungry [SCIENCE, July 31]. As one geneticist has put it, "The gene revolution, like the green revolution, is more likely to feed company pockets than the world's population...