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...ranchers by killing pests that would otherwise die slowly from traps or poison. The V.H.A.'s president, Ned Kalbfleish, 50, says his critics are hypocrites who don't mind trapping mice or spraying roaches and yet threaten him with violence for stalking a creature he calls "the prairie rat." A Vietnam veteran and computer-systems analyst, Kalbfleish insists no amount of shooting can wipe out thriving prairie-dog populations, and he brands as "bad science" the Federal Government's efforts to list the creature as endangered...
With the project essentially complete three years ahead of schedule, we must note the change of heart of its early enemies. Instead of wanting us shut down, as they did as late as 1991, they now beg us to move quickly on to the genomes of the mouse, the rat and the dog. Equally important, we note that no other big science project, save possibly the Manhattan Project, has been carried out with such zeal for the common good. In sharing their sequences so freely and so quickly, members of our genome community have little time left to promote their...
...willing to get arrested not just in Cleveland in May and in Orlando, Fla., in June (Baptists), but plans to do likewise in Long Beach in July (Presbyterians) and possibly in Denver a week later (Episcopalians). The only transdenominational figure on the scene, he will establish the nightly-news rat-tat-tat for the entire season of contention. His attitude toward the various denominations? "We don't debate anymore. You change your policies, or we're going to split you apart and leave...
...Surprises, for instance. "It's like a baseball game," says Paul Romer, the Dutch executive producer and creator of Big Brother. "Even when the game isn't interesting, you wait and stay because the next hit could be a home run." True, arguments over who's hogging the rat meat are probably not what Aristotle had in mind when conceiving the Poetics. And producers can contrive conflict, such as Survivor's races and bug-eating contests, not to mention its million-dollar endgame. (Georgetown linguistics professor Deborah Tannen, author of The Argument Culture, says this "shows that the programmers...
...every fox, there's a hedgehog ranting. Let me count some of the ways: Last week, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) demonstrated at the CBS offices in New York. They said they were angry because contestants on the CBS game show "Survivor" were roasting and eating rats. "RATS HAVE RIGHTS," the placards said. Admittedly, this was a marginal example of millennial Kulturkampf - I cannot recall the last time I was tempted to violate the rights of a rat by eating it. Still, PETA's case works rather nicely from absurdity (rats?!) to essence (what exactly...