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...pushing the top 30; by the beginning of January, 850,000 copies of the album had been shipped in America. That's on top of the 1.5 million the album has sold in Britain and Continental Europe. In Ireland, on the strength of almost no promotional hype, White Ladder has been certified platinum 14 times over. "I don't know if there's anyone there left to buy it," Gray jokes...
That has many scientists scared to death. Because even if all these headlines are hype and we are actually far away from seeing the first human clone, the very fact that at this moment, the research is proceeding underground, unaccountable, poses a real threat. The risk lies not just with potential babies born deformed, as many animal clones are; not just with desperate couples and cancer patients and other potential "clients" whose hopes may be raised and hearts broken and life savings wiped out. The immediate risk is that a backlash against renegade science might strike at responsible science...
...critics of agricultural biotechnology right? Is biotech's promise nothing more than overblown corporate hype? The papaya growers in Hawaii's Puna district clamor to disagree. In 1992 an epidemic of papaya ringspot virus threatened to destroy the state's papaya industry; by 1994, nearly half the state's papaya acreage had been infected, their owners forced to seek outside employment. But then help arrived, in the form of a virus-resistant transgenic papaya developed by Cornell University plant pathologist Dennis Gonsalves...
...defending it.'' Wrote the Detroit Free Press: "There's surely something wrong with a system that can't hold [Chrzanowski] accountable." The judge's supporters are few. In her own defense, Chrzanowski released a statement to TIME last week in which she claimed to be a victim of "media hype...
...Behind the hype is an eloquent, lyrical tale. The House of Blue Mangoes (Weidenfield & Nicolson/Viking; 416 pages) is the sweeping story of a southern Indian family, spanning a half-century from 1899 to 1947. Against the backdrop of the British Raj, two world wars and the struggle for independence, it chronicles three generations of a Tamil family?the Dorais?and through them depicts the caste tensions that simmer just below the surface in the Indian countryside. Davidar is at his best when he weaves the family's struggles with vibrant images of rural life...