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...brazen language has irritated Caldera and other senior Pentagon civilians. "As the Secretary of the Army," Caldera says, "ultimately the responsibility for civilian oversight of the corps is mine." Sweeney puts it more bluntly. "The Senators say they don't want the process politicized, but that's the pot calling the kettle black," he says. "They don't mind civilian control of the corps so long as they're the civilians...
Venter's challenge jolted the lumbering Human Genome Project into a long-overdue overhaul. It cut back to four (now five) major centers. The Brits coughed up more money, and the consortium even began buying some of Hunkapiller's hot new machines. Collins admits that Venter "stirred the pot...
...Nickelodeon/TIME poll suggests such attention may be more important than ever: 50% of the middle schoolers say they know someone who smokes pot, and 36% feel pressure from their peers to do so. Nearly half know someone who has had sex; 40% feel pressure to do so. And 37% of the kids polled say they feel pressure to steal something from a store...
...showed the danger in simply exporting an American conception of democracy into a situation with a very different history. The U.S. led NATO to war against ethnic cleansing, projecting, as an alternative, the notion of a democratic multiethnic Kosovo. Convinced of his own vision of a peaceful Balkan melting pot - as implausible as that sounded to long-term analysts of the region - President Clinton lashed out at anyone who dared to view the conflict instead through the politically incorrect lens of centuries of unresolved tribal hatreds. And yet, a year later, it's increasingly clear that a democratic, multiethnic Kosovo...
...become more ferocious in response to what I see as society's giving up self-evident truths of goodness and kindness, compassion, caring and selflessness, the needs of children for nurturance, attention and support. The more those are disassembling, the more ferocious I'm getting in banging the pot to get people to realize what's happening...