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...finally a word to the wise from the bookSquare Dancing: The Other Stuff...
...natural administrator....He is wise,he's evenhanded and he's fairminded," says AmyGutmann, an university professor at Princeton.Thompson served several terms as chair of thepolitics department there...
...Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton's technothriller about cloned dinosaurs, the author asked a fairly serious question: Is it wise to let commercial technicians meddle with genetic engineering? It did not require a molecular biologist to work out his answer: Only if you think you can run faster than whatever Bacillus or tyranosaur they manage to hatch...
...director -- is that it never turns into a single act. Even the minor characters are sharply written. Dottie's kids are fully her equals in its structure, always giving as good as they get. Erica's the silent, watchful one. Little Opal's the pert mistress of the wise-child zinger. In fact, the film's two best passages belong to them. When Erica takes as her first lover the squarest boy in school (that'll show Mom), their struggle with the logistics of lovemaking is a fresh, sweetly hilarious exploration of familiar territory. And the girls' search for their...
This antigreen brigade advocates economic development in wilderness areas, arguing that land can be used wisely for human benefit without destroying Mother Nature. The timing of the campaign is excellent, since two landmark pieces of environmental legislation are up for renewal in Congress this year: the Endangered Species Act, which prohibits development that drives a species to extinction; and the Clean Water Act, which contains a provision protecting wetlands from uncontrolled exploitation. The wise-users are pressuring Congress to weaken those laws as a way to spur economic growth. Another goal is to block proposed reforms of the federal mining...