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...what they're eating--and growing uneasy with what they see. Over the past decade, genetically modified (GM) food has become an increasingly common phenomenon as scientists in the U.S. and elsewhere have rewoven the genes of countless fruits and vegetables, turning everyday crops into uber-crops able to resist frost, withstand herbicides and even produce their own pesticides. In all, more than 4,500 GM plants have been tested, and at least 40--including 13 varieties of corn, 11 varieties of tomatoes and four varieties of soybeans--have cleared government reviews...
...about fairness and fate, about vanity and values. Which side effects would we tolerate? What if making kids smarter also made them meaner? What if only the rich could afford the advantage? Does God give us both the power to re-create ourselves and the moral muscles to resist? "The time to talk about it in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now," says bioethicist Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania. "If you wait, five years from now the gene doctor will be hanging out the MAKE A SMARTER BABY sign down the street...
...uniforms are not the answer to higher achievement or to closing the gap between minority and majority students." But a change in dress, particularly to a uniform, can have numerous positive effects. Students may become more self-confident and self-disciplined, less judgmental of other students, better able to resist peer pressure and concentrate on schoolwork. Jean Hartman of Long Beach, Calif., was once an opponent of uniforms. But after they were made mandatory in her children's school district--where 66,000 students in 56 elementary schools, 14 middle schools and one high school now wear them--there were...
Like so much of military literature, from the Iliad on, the book shows how adversity breeds character and replaces selfishness with esprit de corps. Even now, McCain, 63, seems unable to forgive himself for his "failure" to resist longer before signing a confession, declaring himself a "black criminal." "In prison," he writes, "where my cherished independence was mocked and assaulted, I found my self-respect in a shared fidelity to my country...
TEMPTING TUNES RealNetworks is making it harder than ever to resist the allure of digital music. Last week it announced a $30 version of its popular RealJukebox music player and recorder (available at real.com) which lets people make exact digital replicas of songs from their CDs in the MP3 format, with no degradation of sound quality--an MP3 first. With a 10-band graphic equalizer, users can fine-tune playback; new "skins" (colorful covers) can also be superimposed on the user interface so it looks as spiffy as the music sounds...