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...perplexes Gordon Conway, the agricultural ecologist who heads the Rockefeller Foundation. He views genetic engineering as an important tool for achieving what he has termed a "doubly green revolution." If the technology can marshal a plant's natural defenses against weeds and viruses, if it can induce crops to flourish with minimal application of chemical fertilizers, if it can make dryland agriculture more productive without straining local water supplies, then what's wrong with...
...Could America flourish as the ?Lone Star? of world politics? This is the question you ought to put to your staffers as they prepare for their interagency talkfests. While they are pulling their all-nighters, do invite Tony, Gerhard and Jacques to the ranch, though friends of Bill they are. Bring along your dad. Back then, he had a wonderful knack for the Europeans, what with his masterful handling of German reunification and nato expansion. They trust and respect "Poppy." He would be the best hand on the bridge when the winds get rougher. And they will...
...Ashcroft completed his statement with a flourish ("I will uphold those laws, so... help... me... God"), someone on the committee bench muttered, "Boy, that was a powerful statement...
...suave and inventive sax of Paul Desmond, is an important rediscovery here, recounts a childhood incident of racial revelation that leaves him weeping. It is an unforgettable anecdote and lays open the conscience as it touches the soul--just the way that much of jazz can do, with a flourish or a solo or an act of lyrical surprise...
Bill Clinton's last flourish on the Nuclear Test Ban treaty won't exactly set the cat among President-elect Bush's pigeons. But it may ultimately provoke some interesting discussions behind closed doors in the new administration. Former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General John Shalikashvili is due to report to President Clinton Friday on the findings of his investigation into whether the U.S. should ratify the treaty - and according to reports, the general will recommend, counter to last year's Senate vote, that ratifying the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is in the nation's best interests...