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...foodmakers can no longer count on the public's unquestioning acceptance of their products, it's not just because of activist theatrics and shrill agitprop. To be sure, it was Greenpeace that pressured Gerber to drop genetically altered soybeans and corn from its baby foods and played a key role in forcing Monsanto to halt research on its self-sterilizing "terminator" seeds. But more measured voices have expressed doubts as well. Says Rebecca Goldburg of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF): "As a biologist, I find it hard to oppose genetically engineered crops or foods per se. [But] I also think...
...produced well before the Governor flunked that geopolitics pop quiz, it clearly reflects a central campaign concern: that Bush might be seen as a lightweight, a silver-spoon child of privilege without the heft to deal with the presidency. The disturbing images, the edgy music in a minor key, the unsettling language aim at one point: No mindless frat boy here...
...enthusiasm and millennial spirit in terms of buzz and box office, units moved and luxury suites occupied. People are not so much dismissing the event as trying to determine how to mark it in a way that's meaningful to them. So a lot of people are making low-key, local plans, like neighbors and single dads Bruce Rave and Charlie O'Dowd of Albuquerque, N.M., who are planning a minimalist block party. "We'll set up a tent with a kerosene heater for the old people and probably me too," says Rave, 45. There will be meat cooking...
...when Donald Trump has morphed from poster boy for ostentation to tax-the-rich political populist, when the wealthy want to have their Valrhona chocolate cake and feel karmically good about it too. Many of the well-heeled are thus laying out the lobster medallions in opulent but low-key celebrations at home. That's been a boon for upscale catering services like Ridgewells in Washington. Says owner Susan Lacz: "We're seeing a lot more bookings for small, elegant home parties this year...
...growing burden of foreign debt. In the last analysis, modern man cannot escape the perennial moral questions of his own existence. Man is tending toward nihilism. In the next millennium, the search for transcendence will be more crucial for man's life than is the search for the key to longevity or a wrinkle-free skin. (THE REV.) LUIS P. SUPAN Manila...