Word: maye
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Grossman's comments echoed those of Vice President Al Gore '69, who said at an AIPAC conference this May that "you [college students] are not the leaders of tomorrow, you are the leaders of today...
...determining if that was the case may not be easy. Reconstructing the contents of a tape that has spent two weeks submerged under 250 feet of salt water could prove difficult. The NTSB will probably need translators since the last words of the Egyptian flight crew were likely in Arabic. And if in fact there was no mechanical problem, what went wrong? Did an intruder succeed in wrecking the plane? Or did the pilot himself somehow send the plane down, either through some kind of error or even deliberately? In the end, the questions may outnumber the answers provided...
...administration to take the heat for a decision like this," says TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller. "The fact that she's a woman doesn't hurt, either." A willingness by the White House to compromise on abortion rights will probably raise some hackles. But for Clinton, it may be worth weathering some ire if he can walk away from this debate - and his presidency - with something resembling a win on foreign policy...
...That may not be easy. Some scientists and consumer advocates charge that biotech companies have not proven their products are safe, citing studies showing lasting hazardous effects of genetically altered plants on the environment. And while some of the alarm surrounding modified foods may be overblown, as the biotech companies allege, consumers' deep-seated fears are not easily allayed. "Lots of people have a visceral, knee-jerk reaction to the idea of eating a rewired plant," says TIME science writer Jeffrey Kluger. "It's not uncommon to have second thoughts about eating a tomato that's been injected with flounder...
Fears like this can translate directly into poor market performance. Disastrous sales in the European market may have scared some sense into the biotech companies, but their new p.r. campaigns may be a few bushels shy of a load. "It could be too late for them in Europe," Kluger says. "Now, these companies are just trying to save the game...