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...main plan for U.S. aid to Russia is frighteningly modest in the eyes of Russia worriers--some extra dollars for a program to keep Russian nuclear technology and scientists from ending up in dangerous places. There is no plan for a policy to help Russia through its chaos and bring out a friendly government on the other side. "We'd love to help them do more," says an Administration official, "but Primakov's motto is 'Just don't do something; stand there...
...event, he seemed as surprised as anyone else that his modest and eerily simple experiment, conducted with limited funding, should have as much impact on our sense of what it is to be human as anything since Adam and Eve. Wilmut wanted to use his cloning technology to improve livestock. "I think we should trust the farmers," he said. Any experimentation with humans, he believed, should be kept strictly at the level of cells and proteins. It would be ethically unacceptable, he said, to use his technique to create a human clone...
...Golden Gophers enter the weekend riding a modest three-game winning streak, while the Wildcats had a five-game streak snapped in their heartbreaking ECAC final loss to the Crimson...
Kureishi's ambitions and concerns seem modest, however, when held up against those of John Taylor. Though Taylor's milieu is as precious as Kureishi's--middle- to upper-class professionals and intellectuals, this time of the Manhattan variety--Falling, about Taylor's own divorce, manages to embrace, if not resolve, some of the questions gripping many Western societies: Is staying married always good? Is divorce always bad? What's best for the children? How, in the face of personal unhappiness, does one set one's moral compass...
...thin. (A man's connective tissue stretches over the fatty layer more tautly, keeping it smooth.) Losing weight, working out and plastic surgery can help reduce cellulite. But they can't change the underlying structure of a woman's body. And neither can Cellasene. So here's a modest proposal: perhaps it's our attitudes about skin texture that ought to change...