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...something equally inaccessible and pointless? I don't speak out of any ideological grudge and I could care less whether these academics continue to get paid for their self-gratification. But I find the "concerns" raised by Chaouli irresistibly absurd. The academics are a union of tailors trying to knit sewing machines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...something equally inaccessible and pointless? I don't speak out of any ideological grudge and I could care less whether these academics continue to get paid for their self-gratification. But I find the "concerns" raised by Chaouli irresistibly absurd. The academics are a union of tailors trying to knit sewing machines. THOMAS C. MUNRO '97-'99 March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Literary Theory Irrelevant | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...impetus to go to a far-off university because the Kishlanskys had moved several times when Matt was younger--from Chicago to Los Angeles and to London for a year. "I've been around," Matt says, "so getting away wasn't an issue. We are a really close-knit family and that's the reason I stayed here...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Close to Home: The Story of Four Families | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

Opponents don't care who made Terminator. To them the idea is Frankensteinian on its face. After tweezing out a toxin-producing stretch of DNA from a noncrop plant, gene scientists managed to knit the lethal genetic material into the genome of commercial plants. They also inserted two other bits of coding that would keep the killer gene dormant until late in the crop's development, when the toxin would affect only the seed and not the plant. But because the seed company needs to generate enough product to sell in the first place, the scientists included one more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Suicide Seeds | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...women under threat, there is little recourse. Running away is next to impossible since Arab societies are close-knit and few women have the means to live alone. Jordanian authorities have a bizarre remedy: they jail endangered women. "Rafa," 20, was locked up in an Amman prison after her uncles and brothers vowed to murder her for having a three-day affair with a co-worker. At any one time, Jordan's prisons may house 70 such women. Sometimes they are released after their families promise not to harm them, though that is no guarantee. Suzanne's male relatives signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Honor | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

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