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...order, Botha adopted a familiar, harsh note. The state of emergency would end only "as violence diminishes, as criminal and terrorist activities cease, and as the process of dialogue and communication acquires greater momentum." He again rejected demands for the unconditional release of Mandela, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964. Botha insisted that Mandela first must renounce violence as a means of gaining political goals; Mandela had previously turned down that condition...
...perhaps the greatest irony of all is that despite these harsh realities, Khomeini remains a revered, inspirational figure for Iran's masses. There are rumblings of discontent, but there seems no serious challenge to his conservative Shi'ite theocracy. There is little question either that the Islamic Republic will survive, if not flourish, after his death. The explanation lies in the application of a skillful mix of repression, which is being eased somewhat as the regime gains confidence, and the presenting of Islam as a unifying and controlling element in what remains a loose and still evolving political structure. "People...
...take ethanol, the gasoline substitute manufactured today mostly from corn. It currently takes a lot of harsh chemicals to process ethanol, but microbes could do the same thing. "I think it's doable within this decade," says Patrinos, "that we will develop a superbug that can make that conversion in a very clean way." Indeed, JGI, in collaboration with the San Diego-based biotech company Diversa, is sequencing communities of bacteria from the guts of termites in an effort to find genes that make hydrogen and ethanol. It's also looking for genes that enable microbes to metabolize radioactive waste...
...mail sent to the Crimson last week, Tribe reiterated his sentiment that an inadvertent mistake has led to an unduly harsh character judgment, amounting to a “false and defamatory contrary impression that some who do or ought to know better have, for their own reasons, deliberately created...
After his remarks, Summers faced harsh questions from conference participants critiquing his conjectures, particularly his emphasis on biology...