Word: gul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Others worry about the animals themselves. Yale Lecturer Gul Agha, founder of a watchdog group called the Cambridge Committee for Responsible Research, is concerned about the quality of life for the new breeds. Producing a cow that gives three times as much milk as a normal Guernsey, he notes, could mean producing a cow that lives in acute discomfort. Says he: "We have the prospect of creating animals that may be in continual agony." Others fret that the release of genetically engineered animals, such as fatter mice or more aggressive game fish, might result in ecological disaster...
CCRR member Kenneth Russell said Sullivan rejected the group's president, Gul Agha, because he recently moved to New Haven and is no longer an official Cambridge resident. Sullivan also rejected Harvey Sapolsky, an MIT professor of public policy. Russell said that Wise, the CCRR's third nominee, was "a fine and logical choice," but that his group would have preferred Agha...
...story of Dobanday is typical. Just six years ago, 20,000 people lived in spacious adobe houses scattered across the floor of a green, spring-fed canyon some 45 miles south of Kabul. "Life was good," recalls Haji Jumah Gul. "We had wheat, corn, rice, melons, apples, cherries, pears and mulberries. Almost everyone had cattle and sheep." Many of the villagers were prosperous enough to be able to afford a pilgrimage each year to Mecca...
...some helicopters, the machinery goes unused because most of the tribesmen do not have the training to operate anything more sophisticated than a bolt-action rifle. Nonetheless, the righteous tenacity of a thousand blood feuds persists. "I am just a mountain man who acts according to circumstances," says Janeb Gul. "Allah will help us because ours is a just fight. Our weapon is our faith...
...sallied forth with blazing floodlights and whirring film cameras. Terrified, the Afghan policemen fled. But the reprieve was short-lived. By 8 the next morning, armed Afghan police sealed off the hotel and placed the 20 or so Americans there under house arrest until they could be deported. Said Gul Ahmed Faried, Afghanistan's chief press censor and a journalism graduate of Columbia University: "U.S. journalism is bourgeois journalism. You don't write for the benefit of the masses...