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...Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Madison, Wisconsin, showed that a homeobox gene involved in insect-limb formation also controls the genetic signals that paint spots on butterfly wings. In essence, says Carroll, butterflies use an old gene to perform a new trick. "Evolution did not have to invent new genes," he observes. "One basic toolbox gives nature enormous potential for diversity...
...powerful enough to undertake major international actions without allies. The U.N. can be useful in marshaling them, as was evident during the Gulf War, which the U.N. authorized. Without it, the U.S. would have more trouble assembling coalitions from scratch in each crisis, or it might have to invent a new international organization (this may become necessary anyway). But the notion that U.S. decisions are subject to the U.N. is a somewhat paranoid fallacy, fed by the Clinton Administration's vacillations and its rhetoric about multilateralism. We can use the U.N. selectively and avoid asking it to undertake things...
Among the best positioned to capitalize on the tastes -- in fact it has probably done the most to invent tastes where they didn't exist before -- is Smith & Hawken, a 16-year-old gardening purveyor that now mails out its catalog to 16 million customers. With a name reminiscent of the reliable groundskeepers of a Sussex estate and a canny sense of American snobbery, Smith & Hawken has spent the past year searching for new and wonderful ways to market $72 Haws watering cans and $42 Felco pruners. Already it has opened 15 stores, with 20 in all planned...
...statement, defendant Hungerford maintained that therapists and their clients "have the power to invent a crime ... and use the legal system to trash your life and rape you-financially and emotionally." What makes his case different is that, for the first time, a criminal-court judge has agreed to decide before a trial begins whether or not a witness's testimony based on recovered memory is solid enough from a scientific point of view to be presented to the jury. Previously, courts left it to juries to decide whether to believe the memories. Legal experts expect Judge Groff to issue...
While liberals use first century sociology to prove that the Gospel writers were inventing stories about Jesus to consolidate their power, Harris reaches the opposite conclusion. Why, he asks, were women given such a prominent role, if the accounts of the Resurrection were all made up? In the Gospels they were the first to see the empty tomb; Mary Magdalene received the first appearance. No one would invent the story this way, Harris argues, "given the fact that in Jewish law of the time a woman's testimony was unacceptable except in a few circumstances. This would have been...