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...must have received the name of his or her Mr. or Mrs. Right Now in the mail when summer began. Too bad the Cabot House superintendent thinks that mail forwarding is an optional duty. My summertime Mr. Right Now envelope is probably wilting under stacks of un-forwarded telephone bills and Widener overdue notices, while my Mr. Right Now has been forced to move down his “ooh baby baby” list to lucky contestant number...
ROBERT ILER plays Tony Soprano Jr., the doughy son of an enterprising, Machiavellian Mob boss on The Sopranos; he is also a child actor. Not since Drew Barrymore merged child acting with a vodka-filled gene pool has a young'un been so destined for a date with trouble. Iler, 16, joined the fabled ranks of Barrymore, Danny Bonaduce and the cast of Diff'rent Strokes when he and three associates were arrested last week. New York City police called it a case of strong-arm robbery, in which two teen victims were relieved of $40. Iler pleaded not guilty...
...sight to see in a city whose baseball history had been notably un-notable; here the Mariners were a few pitchers short of making Seattle a baseball town to be feared, and their stars - the heart of their team - were fleeing town for sunnier climes. The only star in town was going to be Starbucks, and Seattle, as a baseball town, was going back to being Milwaukee...
...more balanced approach means looking not just at the risks of change but also at the potential benefits and the cost of inertia. For example, 40 countries are not on track to meet the UN Millennium Goal of halving the proportion of people suffering from hunger by 2015. Twenty-one of those countries are in sub-Saharan Africa...
...That concern takes center stage in a new publication from the United Nations Development Program. The UN Human Development Report, scheduled for release Tuesday in Mexico City, examines the tension between environmental concerns over GM foods and human rights concerns over famine and malnutrition. The report?s findings are both complex and extremely straightforward: Consumed by privileged worry over the long-term safety of GM crops (and, in some cases, actively slowing the development of new technology) the West has shackled the autonomy of developing nations...