Word: gracefulness
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Biotechnology is touted as a saving grace of our weird and wired world because it uses "nature" to further human ends. We can grow more "productive" corn, or "cooler" tobacco that glows in the dark. Yet our faith in technological progress should not stop us from relentlessly challenging our motivations and our ends. What are the ends of more "productive" corn and "cooler" tobacco? Are the means we're implementing the most effective ones? And, lest we forget, is the biotechnological innovation a good technology, or is it insufficient? Not only are GM organisms ethically and environmentally questionable, they...
...sunset, the tone of the protest shifted to honor the victims of AIDS in a candlelight vigil. Strains of "Amazing Grace" filled the air as protesters took a moment of prayer and silence to commemorate the dead...
...Jesus carried onto a bustling streetcar ("Illusion Travels by Streetcar," 1953), and a man viewing a priest's ritual cleaning and kissing of altar boys' feet leading to sexually charged stares between the man and the woman who will become his beloved ("El/This Strange Passion," 1952). The coup de grace is delivered in "Archibaldo de la Cruz" when our hero, an aspiring (but terribly clumsy) serial killer, frightens a nun so badly she plunges down a deep elevator shaft - producing, in most cinemas, a hearty round of laughter...
...wins the tournament and gets the girl, and it's Smith who needs to get a new agent. BHGs, on the other hand, exist to soften the punch of racially charged movies, to embody the notion that not all racists are bad people. They offer the possibility of grace to all the bigots in the audience. That last group might include a few movie executives...
...more than 200 years, we have agreed that a ballot cast settles the issue. However the final, authorized vote comes out in Florida, the candidate with the lower number should do a Nixon: pick up the phone and show some grace...