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Wolff's novel does a superb job of illustrating the impossibilities of relying on dreams. Just when we think we have captured them, they slip through our grasp and leave us to beat on, boats against the current. Wolff reminds us of Fitzgerald's warning that we cannot resist being borne back ceaselessly into the past...
...possibilities they might be able to generate through, say, in vitro fertilization is not worth spending a lot of time on. Intelligence is very complex. We can't even define it. It is not at all clear to me that a $ real grasp of the genes responsible for intelligence is going to come about, certainly not during the next hundred years. Athletic ability? That's even worse. Are we talking physical strength or height or quickness, and what do those traits mean? We should be focusing on scenarios that are closer to home...
...weigh as much as 136 kg (300 lbs.), and, says park official Joe Abrell, "tear up most everything in their paths." Man is responsible as well for oriental bittersweet, a vine imported to control erosion. It is strangling trees. Says park resource specialist Keith Langdon: "Once it gets a grasp on the land, it doesn't relinquish...
...Minister is likely to be Socialist leader Andrei Lukanov, 52, one of the party's leading reformers. Urbane and articulate, Lukanov was Prime Minister under Mladenov and stayed on as the party leader when Mladenov was forced out. Lukanov has the support of many opposition leaders because of his grasp of economic issues and generally evenhanded approach to political problems. He favors a government of national unity, arguing that broad consensus will be needed to implement the drastic economic changes necessary to remodel a dispirited and state-dominated economy along free-market lines...
...united Germany within his grasp, the West German Chancellor is certain never to be underestimated again. What makes him tick? -- A Kremlin nightmare comes true as the Ukraine seeks sovereignty. -- The U.S. does an about-face on its Cambodia policy, paving the way for talks with Vietnam...