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...sugars, for example -- that are already eaten in other foods, and if they don't have new allergenic substances added (like peanut oil, which is deadly to some people). One of the first products likely to hit the market is a tomato in which the gene that produces a rot-inducing enzyme has been deactivated. Another is a potato in which an enzyme that promotes bruising has been removed...
...face of this rot, I don't believe that Afro-Americans can afford the Booker T. Washington-tyupe of calmness or indifference toward racist patterns that so many neconservative Black intellectuals like Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele and Glenn Loury traffic...
...right word for Lautrec's art is not directly translatable: faisande, the strong gaminess, caused by rot, of a well-hung pheasant. It is everywhere in his work. You see it in the smearily defiant look and plunging neckline of La Goulue barging into the Moulin Rouge on the arms of her two women companions; in the arrogant set of Aristide Bruant's head above the bogus worker's costume he wore to perform his argot songs. It is written all over the seamed face and pouched eyes of the English tourist who has just accosted a pair of girls...
...thought we were supposed to be the leaders of the future, the next presidents, the next great academics. To me, it would seem more productive that those who so vehemently opposed his views and his findings make him out to be the farce and the "moral rot" Professor Kilson spoke of in a previous Crimson letter...
...great concern that I read the growing attitude for censoring future speaker invitations from campus groups. Without a doubt, it is the freedom of speech that is so critical to our learning and understanding of the world we live in. I can make up my mind what is "moral rot" and outrageous proliferation of BS, thank...