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...change. I'm not used to having set times for everything," he says. "On the ranch we would study 12 hours a day if it rained and on other days not at all. I have to prepare myself for the structured rigid schedule that will be thrust upon...
Peter Dickinson is that rare novelist who is equally at home with the inward stare of psychological fiction and the outward thrust of political commentary. That duality is reflected in two themes that reverberate through most of his books: the impact of a family's guilty past and the doomed meeting of the industrialized and the underdeveloped worlds. Both themes merge, stunningly, in Tefuga, the story of a British journalist's trip to Africa to make a docudrama about his parents--a diplomat and his young artist wife whose well-meant meddling provoked a long-ago international incident. The journalist...
...activity that tinkers with the basics of organic life. Last week President Reagan changed that. He signed a 475-page set of guidelines laying out national policy in the biotech field that says, in essence, no new regulations are required to deal with the biotechnology explosion. Instead, the main thrust of the Administration's effort will be to cut down on costly problems of overlapping federal jurisdiction. One reform: new biotech products may now pass for inspection through two federal agencies simultaneously rather than one at a time...
Countless times I found myself on the defensive. Critical Asians, Australians and Europeans complained to me as if I were the White House. I was thrust into the unfamiliar role of defending U.S. foreign policy, while in America I would be among those criticizing...
...JANUARY, El Fred Jewett, as the CBS Evening News affectionately called him, was quickly thrust into a controversy which he had no initial role in. Leverett House's favorite master, John Dowling, had arranged for the construction of metal bars over a set of heating grates behind the house...