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...world in which force projection may be as much about visibility as about lethal power, the subs' stealth can be seen as a liability. Submarine advocates praise this "presence through uncertainty," likening the boats to monsters in the dark, terrifying even if they're not really there. But such stealthiness poses a tactical quandary. It requires absolute radio silence, whereas in today's U.S. military all key forces are bound together by waves of always-flowing electronic data. A U.S. submarine plugged into such "network-centric" warfare would forfeit some of its vital silence, potentially betraying its position...
...according to the New York Times, "hiding in a hunting blind, wearing camouflage and face paint." Finally, as his three victims drove past, he shot and killed them all. He then got up from his hiding place and shot each one in the face. Mease was to die by lethal injection in two weeks, and Carnahan, the governor, had approved 26 executions since he took office six years ago. Yet he could not be expected to withstand the pressure of a personal request from John Paul II, and last Thursday he granted Mease clemency...
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...
...maker of one of the world's most popular herbicides, Monsanto has created crops that are resistant to the toxin. With it, farmers can spray away weeds without spraying away their harvest. The company has also developed plants with a built-in toxin that is harmless to humans but lethal to insects. If farmers in the developing world use these muscled-up crops--even with Terminator genes--their harvests might increase enough to cover the cost of buying seeds each spring. Says Delta and Pine Land vice president Harry Collins: "It will help them become more production-oriented rather than...