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Already, for the first time, scientists can tailor simple living things. They can do this not just by cleverly mixing different strains, as in the slow and ancient process of crossbreeding roses or dogs...
...State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency worked feverishly for more than two weeks assembling the evidence. Many of the details were provided by a clearly prejudiced party-the Salvadoran armed forces-and had to be double-checked. U.S. officials then had to tailor a presentation for foreign officials that would not compromise intelligence sources in Central America...
...conveniently called, and some of it is very dumb indeed-but not all. One notable exception is the work of a precocious 25-year-old named Jedd Garet, whose paintings seem to take their stylistic base from, of all things, late De Chirico- not the pre-1918 master of tailor's dummies and spare, aching urban spaces, but the pompous neoclassicist of the '30s. Coarsely colored and drawn with a kind of savvy crudeness, Caret's Flaming Colossus, 1980, resembles nothing so much as a black squid with humanoid ambitions, silhouetted against a conventionally "apocalyptic" background...
...represented more than the profits of DuPont, Sears, Proctor & Gamble, Xerox, and RCA combined, McCreery fights an uphill battle in convincing students they will be more than just a rung on the corporate ladder. But, he says, "Once you give people the idea that an industrial career can be tailor-made to their interests and capabilities you've basically done...
Still faced with the need to move, Despos applied to the Small Business Administration for a $150,000 loan at 9.25% interest. A friend who used to work for the SBA in Washington, D.C., though, told the tailor that he had little chance of getting a loan. The reason: he is not a member of one of SBA'S priority groups-black, female, handicapped or a Viet Nam veteran...