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Does Washington need a World War II memorial? Yes. Its very absence is an oddity of the city's monumental architecture. The Revolutionary War sports grand monuments to Washington and Jefferson. The Civil War is inescapable; no traffic circle in the city is complete without its bronze man on a bronze horse. Even our most recent wars--Korea and Vietnam--are represented, with symmetrically placed memorials flanking the base of the Lincoln Memorial...
Charles Krauthammer missed the opportunity of a lifetime in his speculation about the potential of cloning [SPECIAL REPORT, March 10]. He implied that we might clone Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr. or even Thomas Jefferson. Perhaps we could use bits of dna that linger in their remains. We could raise the clones in structured isolation and see what they would do. If dna survives the decomposition of the human body, then we should examine the ultimate cloning possibility. Let's scrape the Shroud of Turin for whatever tiny bits of human matter may still cling to that cloth, clone...
Einstein, King, Jefferson, Salk, Chopin--go ahead, clone them all. Chances are that at least three would be placed in day care at six weeks of age, given mind-numbing doses of television and videos from toddlerhood through adolescence and educated in dumbed-down public schools with expectations and outcomes far lower than those of a few generations past. Our biological gestation period may be only nine months, but our spiritual, emotional and intellectual development lasts a lifetime. TOM KOWITZ Portland, Oregon...
When documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' latest opus, Thomas Jefferson, debuted on PBS last month, complete with the voice of Gwyneth Paltrow reciting the diary entries of Jefferson's granddaughter Ellen Coolidge, at least one history buff in America bailed out before the closing credits. "I couldn't bear it," says Michael Cascio, executive producer of the A&E network's hour-long documentary series Biography. Cascio is annoyed that Burns' often tiresomely long dissertations are the standard by which all TV documentaries should be measured. "We're trying to develop a style without having to linger on a meadow...
...year A&E launched Biography for Kids. In January the network started a monthly magazine, also titled Biography, filled with profiles and quizzes like "Who Am I?" (sample question: "I became a U.S. Senator from Mississippi, and in 1853 was appointed Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce..." Answer: Jefferson Davis). A line of books associated with the series will be published this year. An all-Biography cable channel is set to arrive...