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...Ronald Reagan disproved the instinctive Republican tenet that real men don't need public relations. In any case, the Bush White House's public relations have been clumsy and dumb. There's a cheerful tendency to walk into doors. There's a strange inability to foresee trouble, to repair public misperceptions, and to mount articulate counterattacks. Republicans cannot blame it all on the liberal bias of the media...
...serum for the industry." He may be right; Incyte now says what it's got is the number of "messages" sent by genes, not the genes themselves. Their mistake, but maybe their profit too. Because the first consequence inflated numbers mean is that the longstanding "one gene, one protein" tenet of human biology has been thoroughly exploded. And the biotech world just got slapped in the face by a new frontier...
...exhibit opens with a monumental oil and collage by American Tom Wesselmann depicting a towering six-pack of Royal Crown Cola, a fat loaf of Sunbeam bread and a can of Libby's beef stew obscuring a view of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral. That jarring juxtaposition embodies a fundamental tenet of Pop: that the everyday artifacts of consumer society defined a new aesthetic, stretching traditional conceptions of appropriate subjects and blurring the distinction between high...
...oilman with a proven aversion to antipollution regulation and a firm grounding in the don't-tread-on-me ideology of Western Republicans would reject a complicated agreement like the one forged in Kyoto, Japan in 1997. A few weeks ago, Bush clearly indicated his opposition to the central tenet of that agreement -curbing global warming by cutting emissions of carbon dioxide -in a letter to several Republican Senators. In it, he abandoned a campaign pledge to regulate CO2 emissions from American power plants, citing among other factors the "incomplete state of scientific knowledge of the causes of, and solutions...
JONATHAN POLLARD Former Navy analyst who sold U.S. military secrets to Israel. Some American Jews have pushed for Pollard to be freed, but national-security figures like CIA Director George Tenet have fought that vigorously...