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...else, and there are no lobbyists here—except for a few biotech companies and the Catholic Church. One might think that this freedom from lobbying would spur healthy debate, improving the chances that Congress would reach the right decision for the right reasons. But without a firmer grasp of the ethical arguments than the five-minute presentations they receive—and without the courage to treat ethics as more than just another “issue” in the pot—I’m not very hopeful that it will...
...main changes in focus are things like missile defense, and space war fighting. But to say that these things are going to happen during the next few years, during Bush's term, is ludicrous. The Bush administration's reach definitely exceeded its grasp...
...cosmology--how old the universe is, what it's made of and how it will end--will have been answered, only about 70 years after they were first posed. By the time the final chapter of cosmic history is written--further in the future than our minds can grasp--humanity, and perhaps even biology, will long since have vanished. Yet it's conceivable that consciousness will survive, perhaps in the form of a disembodied digital intelligence. If so, then someone may still be around to note that the universe, once ablaze with the light of uncountable stars, has become...
...shake the older man who created her, who pulled her from the loneliness of Taiwan and made her a star. It's all related to Hong Kong's peculiar film business and the insecurities it has created within her. Locals flock to her films but frequently trash her imperfect grasp of Cantonese. More experimental markets suit her, and she's hugely popular in Japan and South Korea. But the Hong Kong press labels her as arrogant, greedy, cruel and uncooperative, precisely because she doesn't play by the same rules as everyone else. It has been painful but has also...
...there is something difficult to grasp about Blake: an obsessive personal mythology that is intensely vivid and yet hard to see as a whole. As he put it, he had to devise his own system or be enslaved by another's. Its roots are Puritan, dissenting, millenarian--and very English; Blake never traveled abroad. But English antiquity and especially English medievalism mattered enormously to him. They were the meat and milk of his imagination. Even if we didn't know that James Basire, the engraver to whom his father apprenticed him, had sent him to study and draw the monuments...