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This is all troubling stuff, and Lucas has done an excellent reporting job. And therein lies the problem. This is a reporting job, not history, and a certain perspective is missing. It lacks the cultural-historical context that a book on a struggle pitting Russia against the West demands. A book about a new cold war is really a book about a new geopolitics. Alas, The New Cold War doesn't read like a book about anything so monumental or metaphysical as a cold war. Instead, it comes across as a series of news stories on an unfortunate turn...
...from real chicken flesh to non-meat-eaters and meat-eaters alike.” However, recreating tissue as complex as muscle is no simple task. A piece of chicken that is indistinguishable from real chicken would have flesh, fats, connective tissue, and perhaps even blood vessels and neurons. Therein lies the problem. If it looks like chicken and tastes like chicken, then why isn’t it chicken?The answer that PETA offers is that since no whole animals are killed, the eating of in vitro meat is not a problem. This technicality raises some serious ethical questions...
...which nothing can grow, in which those shoots that do break through to the open air will soon find that the warmth will never touch them? They will give up, and wither, and die. Such a garden would soon be only of use or interest to ourselves, because therein we should recognize and acknowledge a metaphor—”“Don’t speak,” Felicity interrupted. She impaled her crumpet with a fork.The dispute continued, neither of the two particularly invested in its outcome, and both of them unwilling to stand...
...therein lies something of a mystery. How could Chinese authorities have missed the potential for Tibetan violence? It was no secret that groups ranging from disaffected Tibetans to human rights activists would try and take advantage of the approaching Olympics to exercise some leverage for their causes when Beijing seemed most vulnerable. And yet, China's leaders appear to have been completely unprepared to respond to challenges with anything but brute force and harsh words...
...therein lies something of a mystery. How could Chinese authorities have missed the potential for Tibetan protest? It was no secret that groups ranging from disaffected Tibetans to human-rights activists would try and take advantage of the Olympics to exercise some leverage for their causes when Beijing seemed most vulnerable. And yet, China's leaders appear to have been completely unprepared to respond to challenges with anything but brute force and harsh words...