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Measures are being considered to avert such calamities--for example, ringing cornfields with patches of plain, old-fashioned corn so that not all pests become resistant. But these efforts haven't silenced critics, especially in Britain, where a noisy debate is raging over what the London tabloids like to call "Frankenstein foods." Last week the British Medical Association called for a moratorium on commercial planting of all transgenic crops until scientists agree on their safety. In India, Monsanto is running into a p.r. buzz saw in its efforts to introduce a Bt cotton called Bollgard--even as it wrestles with...
...bill, which started as a $6 billion request from Clinton, quickly swelled to $15 billion in the House after Republicans indulged in $6 billion worth of one-upsmanship (not soft on defense, they!), some long-delayed hurricane-relief funds for Central America, and a good helping of plain old pork. But add-ons like subsidies for Alaska reindeer farmers, election-monitoring money for elections in East Timor, and an additional $333,000 a year for Tom DeLay's and Dick Gephardt's office expenses weren't enough to scare Clinton...
...years running. He's a finalist again this year. Opposing teams scored an average of 1.87 goals per game against him in the regular season, vs. the league average of 2.63. He's known as the "Dominator," which he demonstrated in shutting down the younger, faster and just plain better Ottawa Senators to win the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, 4-0. After beating him, 4-2, in the opener of the second round, which continues this week, Boston Bruin players emphasized that Hasek is human. Keep saying that, guys...
...sound of Close Range: Wyoming Stories (Scribner; 285 pages; $25), her new collection of short stories: "Pake knew a hundred dirt road shortcuts, steering them through scabland and slope country, in and out of the tiger shits..." (the reader fumbles this one but is swept on) "... over the tawny plain still grooved with pilgrim wagon ruts, into early darkness and the first storm laying down black ice, hard orange dawn, the world smoking, snaking dust devils on bare dirt, heat boiling out of the sun until the paint on the truck hood curled, ragged webs of dry rain that never...
...Colors magazines in radical new directions; he brought artists into Times Square redevelopment projects; he created books, watches, furniture, posters, signs and menus. I worked with him on a film, a video clip and a number of record and CD covers, and his enthusiasm, sense of invention and plain wicked fun was contagious. Tibor had no patience with design that merely made things elegant, pretty or beautiful; he always aspired to design that was equal to the content, that meant something, told us about the way we live and took responsibility for itself. He made things that woke...