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...Loon's versatility and imagination as an illustrator which makes DNA for Beginners so entertaining and understandable. The range of his models is extraordinary. He draws on Auguste Rodin's Thinker, Andy Warhol's soup cans, Thomas Nast's cartoons of Victorian social commentary, and dozens of other artists' works. Caricatures, engravings, photographs, and a diagrams are all intermingled without ever clashing. Gregor Mendel's famous pea plants, study of which led to the discovery of genes, show up as Jolly Green Giants...
...Campbell Soup, which manufactures Godiva chocolates, was not amused. In a letter to Grey, the company charged that she was "passing off inauthentic and offensive merchandise" that looked like candy for humans and "may constitute a danger to public health." Campbell demanded that she supply a list of her customers, "destroy all the packaging" and "pay over to us the profits." Grey, who says that Campbell is "barking up the wrong tree," sued the company in a Los Angeles federal court for interfering with her enterprise. Campbell countersued, and Grey filed an additional complaint with a California state judge...
...York City's expenditures on its 60,000 homeless people more than doubled this year, to $135 million. Officials at all levels seem to be scrambling to address-or dismiss-the problem. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese caused a furor last week by dubiously claiming that "people go to soup kitchens because the food is free and that's easier than paying for it." In San Francisco, declares Deputy Mayor Bo-tea Gilford, the homeless are "the most difficult problem we have ever faced...
...harried him. Reviewers accustomed to propriety panned the book and accused Roth of writing pornography. Zionists and orthodox Jews charged him with betraying his heritage and making a mockery of the Holocaust. Jewish mothers, appalled by what they perceived as scathing anti-Semitism, threatened to lace his chicken soup with arsenic...
...time to rebuke Meese with specifics. Most forgot to point out, for example, that some 20 million Americans depend on food stamps to eat and that tens of thousands more--who don't qualify for federal assistance thanks to the Administration's draconian eligibility requirements--have been forced into soup kitchens. But it must have been party politics that prevented Democrats from giving Reagan's men credit for being so egalitarian about whom they go about alienating...