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...think, a tragedy, and no more the occasion for retrospective moral judgments than any other biographical canvas should be," Guralnick writes, switching quickly from slowdown to full stop. "I know of no sadder story." Any of the black bluesmen Guralnick loves and writes about so well could tell him a dozen before a dropped dime hit the floor. But no bluesman, and few entertainers of any kind, has managed to achieve the sheer dimension of Presley's story. Just as Elvis' girth fascinated fans and the press during his last, misbegotten years, so too it is the outsize scale...
...defenders of General Pinochet show no scruples when making a case for this South American butcher. They tell us about taking into account "humanitarian reasons" for the immediate release of the dictator, as if humanitarian considerations played a role in the thousands of torture sessions that occurred in Chile during Pinochet's regime. The charges against Pinochet are most serious. If he is not brought to trial, humanity will lose the opportunity to resolve a great misunderstanding: the confusion between ideology and fascism. DANILO ZIMBRES Sao Paulo...
...presidency," and gave the go-ahead for a special counsel...But there are questions about the special counsel. Who will be chosen? Reno's only answer was someone "ruggedly independent"... How broad or narrow will the probe be? Said Justice Department spokesman Carl Stern: "We are not going to tell the special counsel what to investigate. He or she is going to tell us." The difference could be crucial. An inquiry focused narrowly on Whitewater...might be concluded speedily but be open to charges of inadequacy. A broader investigation could turn into a fishing expedition lasting years...Obviously...
Completeness and accuracy were the Human Genome Project's twin mantras from its formal start in 1990. At that point, researchers had already painstakingly identified more than 4,000 of the 100,000 genes that serve as the blueprint for a functioning human being--each gene carrying instructions that tell cells how to produce a specific protein. Scientists had located about 1,500 genes, in a rough way, on the 46 chromosomes--the long, twisted strands of DNA cradled in protein at the heart of every human cell. But they had deciphered, or sequenced, only a handful of the many...
...Frankenstein idea" of making "designer babies" with good looks and a high IQ. But what is the difference? Therapists consider learning disabilities to be medical problems, and if we find a way to diagnose and remedy them before birth, we'll be raising scores on IQ tests. Should we tell parents they can't do that, that the state has decided they must have a child with dyslexia? Minor memory flaws? Below-average verbal skills? At some point you cross the line between handicap and inconvenience, but people will disagree about where...