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I used to be one of these people who would feel great angst over the lack of interest in national news displayed by many Americans. However, poor little Elian Gonzalez radically changed my mind on this subject. Is this issue important? Yes. But the other day I arrived at the...
Cardenas is a pretty, poor fishing town of palm trees and empty streets--few people can afford a car--and Juan Miguel lives, by relative standards, the good life. He is among the lucky elite who are paid in dollars, in his job as a guard and cashier at the...
Even more controversial are attempts to patent not whole genes like CCR5 but mere snippets, such as ESTs (expression sequence tags) and SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms). Incyte, for instance, aims to patent more than a million ESTs. Such patents, says American University law professor James Boyle, are "fishing expeditions"--reeling...
I once went fly fishing up in the Aberdare Range of Kenya--trying to cast a delicate fly down quietly upon the surface of the stream while at the same time watching over my shoulder for the lions that liked to pick off little animals watering there. I didn't...
The Elian Gonzalez case has been like that--two mutually contradictory games played simultaneously. The fly-fishing part involves the father, the son, the family, the boy's welfare. But the lions--Fidel Castro and the exiles in Miami--are up to another sport entirely: carnivorous politics. The problem is...