Word: riche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ethical quandary and an economic one, 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...
These are both wonderful performances, with Baldwin's--coming on top of his superb movie-star parody in Notting Hill--opening up rich new territories for him to explore. But Outside Providence is full of glorious actor's moments, and may finally owe its success to them. One begins to think, If all these people believe so wholeheartedly in this enterprise, maybe I ought to as well...
...everyone else had. Now that those boomers are feeling an occasional twinge in the lower back as they take that big step up into the driver's seat of the sport-utility vehicles they worked so hard to acquire, along comes another generation known not for wanting to be rich but for having suddenly become rich--seemingly without working very hard, or at least very long. That has to sting...
...puffing up a hill on their bicycles find themselves passed with embarrassing ease by some 25-year-old who tosses off a "Hi ya, Pops," they have yet another way to express their irritation. "If you're so young," they can shout after him, "why aren't you rich...
...just the rich and powerful who have advocates in Congress. So do the small and wiggly, including mice, frogs, lizards, fish and hamsters. And they need them, with products like "crush" videos showing up on the Internet. The videos, which sell for up to $100, show small animals being stomped to death, usually by women wearing high-heeled shoes and boots. Although there are laws against animal cruelty, prosecutors have had trouble winning cases because most of the films don't show the stompers' faces. They also have to prove that the films were made within a three-year statute...