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At almost exactly noon, a volley of tear gas touched off the final revolt. Police guarding the parliament thought they could face down the furious, swelling mob. The peppery gas started to bite, pushing back the crowd as many dragged out handkerchiefs ready in their pockets. But the police were...
Though many of the races have heated up, there are still pockets apathy still reigns supreme.
Recruiting season has begun for seniors across the country. Consulting and investment banking firms with deep pockets and reputations staked on recruiting top talent will spend thousands of dollars this fall trying to muscle one another aside to attract applicants from the Class of 2001.
Night had fallen over the dusty city of Luoyang, and the agents who call themselves the Secret Service Christians were ready to commence their most dangerous mission yet, to disperse 60 Americans into the Chinese hinterlands to spread the word of God covertly. Wendy Lawson, a member of the South...
Enough with the hackneyed song-and-dance routine about genetically modified crops being designed to feed the poor and nourish the hungry [SCIENCE, July 31]. As one geneticist has put it, "The gene revolution, like the green revolution, is more likely to feed company pockets than the world's population...