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...Gordon Conway, the agricultural ecologist who heads the Rockefeller Foundation, 21st century farmers will have to draw on every arrow in their agricultural quiver, including genetic engineering. And contrary to public perception, he says, those who have the least to lose and the most to gain are not well-fed Americans and Europeans but the hollow-bellied citizens of the developing world...
This much we do know: Duchovny, who last year suggested he might not return to the series at all, will be back for 11 episodes, about half the series. Fox just hired a new male lead, Robert Patrick, who will sub for Mulder, playing a cop turned Fed. About six or seven of the 20 or so episodes will be "mythology" installments and the rest stand-alones - the usual stingy ratio. They will be an hour in length and will be punctuated by short films, or "commercials," that encourage viewers to buy consumer goods and services...
...Civil Rights Act. What we would like to see is for the federal government to start taking seriously the enforcement of Title 6... when a state agency is spending its funds in a racially discriminatory manner that it (the federal government) will cut funds to the agency... there's fed money coming into the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority that are being used on racist rail projects." -Ted Robertson, march organizer...
...Answered the Designated Fisherman: "Keep everyone fed, and hope they're happy." Spoken like a true politician...
...novelty factor aside, this has to be an extremely worrisome development for the book industry. King says he likes Simon & Schuster, but "The Plant" represents a Cujo-size bite into the hand that has fed him so far. Unlike his previous online release, "Riding the Bullet," a story that readers had to pay up front to download from Simon & Schuster's web site last March, "The Plant" will appear on King's own site, cutting out the middleman altogether. Publishing houses rely on blockbusters ? la King to finance the development of up-and-coming talent, and the prospect...