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...world dominated by competition, parents understandably want to give their kids every advantage. There is hardly a religion on the planet that does not exhort its believers to enhance the welfare of their children. The most likely way for eugenics to enter into our lives is through the front door as nervous parents--awash in advertising, marketing and hype--struggle to ensure that their little bundle of joy is not left behind in the genetic race...
Shin created a spacious hall with slabs of virtual stone to house the memorial. Like the rest of Dadaworld, it is a three-dimensional space: visitors use "avatars"--cyberfigures incarnating individual people or characters--to navigate a broad stairway and enter the hall, where pictures of the deceased children hang on the wall. Visitors can click on icons to see more pictures and video clips of the victims or ponder messages left by grieving parents. Parents can even ask to see computer-generated avatars of their children. One father took his avatar son for a walk in the virtual garden...
...These were the words of man who follows an extraordinarily large-looming president in Bill Clinton and seems determined to enter this Oval Office somewhat smaller and more modestly. The pundits and papers are likely to seize on those mentions of "personal responsibility" as a Clinton kiss-off, but from Bush they also sound like a vision - a vision of a nation led lightly and widely, of a presidency by consensus from a president who never really...
...Sierra Club in 1892) or Rachel Carson, the environmental movement in this country is founded on a belief in the link between all human beings and their natural environment. Some of these links, as Carson sought to inform us, are of a direct, "scientific" nature. The chemicals that enter into and damage our environments have similar consequences on our bodies; it makes sense then to pollute less. Some of these relationships are more spiritual or metaphysical, as Muir or Thoreau would have argued. Yet for all three of them, as well as many of the brilliant environmental scientists, ethicists...
...something a little more noble and transcendent - the last President Bush wasn?t so foolhardy as to ask Americans to send their sons and daughters to die on foreign soil in order to keep the nation?s gas pumps turning over. No, the pretext had to be more gallant. Enter the "Butcher of Baghdad" - whereas the U.S. had been happy to supply him with weapons and intelligence for his war against Iran in the 1980s, Saddam's invasion of Kuwait prompted President Bush to suddenly recognize him for the thug he'd always been, and begin painting...