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...stemming from the recent Smith & Wesson gun control accord has been doused with a cold shower of reality. Thursday, the gunmaker, which broke ranks with fellow manufacturers to strike a gun safety deal with the federal government, issued a "clarification" of the terms of their agreement, essentially removing the teeth from the groundbreaking deal. While government officials maintain that Smith & Wesson agreed to several initiatives, including restricting sales of the company's products to dealers who followed stringent background check and safety procedures, the company disagrees with that interpretation, dismissing the government's claims...
...York City, Harry Shapiro, while sensibly warning of the "dangers of prophecy," wondered what humans might become a half-million years hence. His predictions included such features as a rounder skull, a smoothing of the area above the brows, a reduction in the size and number of teeth, and a shrinking of the face in general. Shapiro also predicted that we would get taller and even balder and that body hair would continue to diminish...
Then they start fiddling with it--turning on old pseudogenes; knocking out the genes for feathers and putting back in the genes for scaly skin; tweaking the genes for the skull so that teeth appear instead of a beak; shrinking the wings, keel and wishbone (ostrich genes would be helpful here); massively increasing size and sturdiness of the body; and so on. Pretty soon they have the recipe for a big, featherless, wingless, toothy-jawed monster that looks a little like a cross between a dodo and a tiger...
...criticized by the opposition for failure to produce results in his "Sunshine Policy" of reconciliation with the North - the meeting's significance goes way beyond Seoul's domestic politicking. After all, no Western-allied leader has ever even met Kim Jong-Il, whose famine-stricken but armed-to-the-teeth state periodically threatens to disrupt the region's tenuous stability with such unpredictable provocations as test-firing a long-range missile over Japan...
...kept from the view of the audience. In the parts of the world where Nachtwey does his work, public affairs have become not much more than a subdepartment of the larger human impulse toward bloodlust. People are regularly dismembered and disfigured. Their arms are blown off, their teeth are broken, and they are starved. "I am trying to upset people," Nachtwey said recently. "I am trying to interrupt their...