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...which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening his essay with: "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction...
Duehay says the city has already taken steps to help those who were cut off before they could find jobs, including efforts at housing, job placement and formation of support groups for those living in poverty...
...From a telephone poll of 1,031 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN last month by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Margin of error +/- 3%. "Not sures" omitted...
Important questions also remain on the most appropriate means of controlling the development and use of these techniques. It is taken for granted that the production and sale of drugs will be regulated by governments, but this was not always the case. A hundred years ago, the production and sale of drugs in the U.S. was unregulated. Unscrupulous companies took the opportunity to include in their products substances, like cocaine, that were likely to make the patients feel better even if they offered no treatment for the original condition. After public protest, championed by publications such as the Ladies' Home...
...their cells naturally produce large quantities of protein, potatoes and tomatoes seem for now to be the most efficient vehicles for the new approach. Instead of mixing viral or bacterial DNA in a formula for injection, for example, scientists could insert it into soil bacteria. When the bacteria are taken up by the plant, therapeutic DNA material is stitched into the plant's genome. Another method of getting genes into plants is to coat tiny particles of tungsten or gold with foreign DNA, then shoot the particles directly into plant cells. Either way, the plant's cells start to produce...