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...This is the dawn of the eugenics era," declared Jeremy Rifkin, founder of the Foundation on Economic Trends, a biotechnology-watchdog group in Washington. Painting a dark picture of "standardized human beings produced in whatever quantity you want, in an assembly-line procedure," Rifkin organized protests last week outside George Washington University and other reproductive-research institutions...
...state races they contested nationwide. Since then, the conservatives have intensified their focus on school boards. "They provide a local forum at the grass-roots level in every community around which they can build a political network," says Michael Hudson of People for the American Way, an anticensorship watchdog group. "There is always something in the schools that mirrors cultural problems, whether sex education or AIDS or evolution." The strategy of the religious right, he says, is to "find a controversy in the schools that stirs up a lot of energy among local churches, then run candidates using that issue...
Opponents are scathing in their criticism of the well-intentioned effort. "The designers of this system should have known that most people would observe it," says Volrad Wolny, a waste-management expert at Eco-Institute, an environmental watchdog organization. "Ecological awareness in Germany is very high." He says DSD executives gave guarantees they knew could not be met. "They knew they did not have the technology in place." Wolny and others want to compel producers to cut plastic packaging by up to 50%. And the Greens, meanwhile, feel the Green Dot gives their party a bad name. They would like...
What is tragic (for liberals, that is) about the left-wing's treatment of the right is that ultimately liberals only end up hurting themselves. Strange as it may sound, Harvard liberals need conservatives. They need a watchdog opposition to challenge their views. They need vocal ideological foes to point out the inconsistencies in their argumentation, so they can repair them...
Bochco's show, which he invented partly to test the boundaries of TV sex and language, finally goes on the air this Tuesday (10 p.m. EDT) after a hot summer of controversy. Conservative watchdog the Rev. Donald Wildmon has launched a campaign against the show. By late last week, 44 ABC stations had decided not to run at least the premiere; the majority won't air the series at all. Though most are in smaller markets, the defections could seriously hurt the show's ratings. Advertisers, meanwhile, have been wary. Although ad time on the first episode is sold...