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...Maybe not science. But public opinion, when it comes to environmentalism, is a notoriously lazy watchdog. Polls on the Alaska drilling issue were inconclusive. (The modification of "oil drilling" with the words "environmentally responsible" tended to take the teeth right out of the opposition, even though the term is as murky as the air over Los Angeles...
...Shindo's first film Love/Juice, an am-I-or-aren't-I lesbian story that won her Rookie of the Festival award in Berlin three weeks ago. Interesting territory even for Japan: two roommates, lesbian photographer Chinatsu (Okuno Mika) and friend Kyoko (Chika Fujimura), do drugs, sleep and brush teeth together. Chinatsu quickly falls in love with Kyoko. They kiss and touch one another - Chinatsu shows the uninitiated Kyoko how to masturbate - but the latter recoils from physical love. A stronger movie would have started where this one leaves off, but it's a compact, spare tale shot in night...
...despite proclaiming itself environmentalist, the more blunt recalcitrance of the Bush administration may even prove easier to engage with. President Clinton may have signed the Kyoto treaty, but he never had any intention of presenting it to Congress, and sent his negotiators to Europe to try and pull the teeth of the agreement - to the point of arguing that the preponderance of forests in the U.S. meant that it shouldn't have to make any cuts in its output. By contrast, the Bush administration isn't even pretending that it's on the same page as the international community...
...seen their nest eggs decimated, no one is stepping up to fix the one-stock scourge. In the mid '90s, Senator Barbara Boxer of California championed a bill to limit employer stock to 10% of plan assets. But companies opposed it. Boxer won a watered-down version with no teeth. She has moved on to other issues, and no one else has taken up the cause...
...ground for profiteers and charlatans. In her effort to clone her daughter Olga, Tanya Tomusyak contacted an Australian firm, Southern Cross Genetics, which was founded three years ago by entrepreneur Graeme Sloan to preserve DNA for future cloning. In an e-mail, Sloan told the parents that Olga's teeth would provide more than enough DNA?even though that possibility is remote. "All DNA samples are placed in computer-controlled liquid-nitrogen tanks for long-term storage," he wrote. "The cost of doing a DNA fingerprint and genetic profile and placing the sample into storage would be $2,500. Please...