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Despite all the noise about her grand future, Hillary has predilections these days that are downright modest. In her public appearances, rather than spreading her wings, she seems to be nesting. Whereas she once wanted to colonize no less than one-seventh of the economy with her health-care plan, consider the role she played in this year's budget. Her fingerprints are all over dozens of small, shrewd programs. She was the driving force behind the tax credit for stay-at-home moms (per-person average: $178), the $50 million in grants to help children on Medicaid treat their...
...horribly uncomfortable. Our online exchanges had been about deep stuff: Did I believe in God? What did dreams of death mean? But in person, that connection evaporated, and I found myself face-to-face with a stranger who knew way too much about me. It was downright creepy...
...pages, the book succeeds in delivering a creepy sense of dread about our culture. Glamorama's contribution to the world may be the motto of its main character, a male model: The better you look, the more you see. As a sum-up of our decade, it's downright Tom Wolfean...
This year, after splitting a weekend against RPI and Union, few gave the Crimson a chance against now-No. 6 B.C. in a non-conference home game. The notion was downright comical a month ago when Harvard languished in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference basement...
...notion of science as a Faustian enterprise is deeply embedded in the popular psyche, even in the relatively optimistic U.S. Technologies that tinker with the fundamentals of life can inspire anxieties enough; when increasingly wedded to the profits of Big Business, the exercise can begin to look downright alarming. Author Jeremy Rifkin, America's most persistent critic of bioengineering, wonders what is in store for a world in which evolution is treated as a plaything and life as an "invention." A case in point: the announcement in November by Advanced Cell Technology of Worcester, Mass., that it had hybridized human...