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...begin planning for an onslaught of designer babies? Has the genomics revolution hoodwinked investors? Are genetically modified crops a menace or boon to the world?s food supply? With all the hoopla over gene-splicing, have biologists lost sight of more mundane issues like the devastating loss of plant and animal species...
...genetically engineered organisms like the rapidly growing salmon we are raising in pens along our coasts? Would he have shed a tear for the late Dolly? Or would he have wagged a scolding finger at her scientist creators? And how would he have regarded the development of new plant species through gene-splicing - those ?frankenfoods? that raised European blood pressure about U.S. policies long before George Bush started talking tough about Saddam Hussein...
...poets are anti-slavery. An anonymous English lady thoughtfully composed songs for plantation slaves to sing while working: "Bless the fields we dig and plant! / Lord! supply our ev'ry want: / Give our souls and bodies food, / And grateful hearts for ev'ry good." James Boswell took time out from finishing the "Life of Johnson" to write an excruciatingly bad (and long) poem defending slavery, "No Abolition of Slavery," a work that until now has not been republished for some 210 years...
TIME'S story about President Bush's environmental record neglected to report on the consensus in favor of many ambitious Bush Administration initiatives [ENVIRONMENT, Jan. 27]: cutting power-plant pollution 70%, significantly reducing air pollution from diesel engines, a $1 billion program to clean up hazardous waste, $40 billion to fund land and water conservation on America's farmlands, $4.5 billion in tax credits for renewable-energy technology, and a proposal to create the first new wilderness area in more than a decade. You also failed to examine the reasons for the President's Healthy Forests Initiative: the pressing need...
...early days as the Gallo-Roman Tolosa. In the Middle Ages the city was governed by councilors called capitouls, chosen from among the leading merchants. In the 15th century the merchant class grew rich from the international trade in pastel, a blue dye made from the locally grown woad plant, and the newly wealthy began to build the brick mansions that still line almost every central city street. The city's hallmarks are gaiety and gastronomy. At the Place du Salin, remnants of the city's 1st century Roman walls support the small, age-darkened medieval house in which...