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Crops for the Insatiable Appetite
In season, pollen grains containing trillions of genetically engineered gametes slip across boundaries into small, private farms where they have their way with local daughter gametes. Far from offering...
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Striking a Bargain
Currently those going on strike bring everything to a halt. When in the short-term, they are themselves a de facto employee monopoly, the power to strike is as dysfunctional to our society (again in...
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The Biochemical-Industrial Complexes
In his farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower warned the nation that a military-industrial complex, led by interests within the government, the military, and those industries supplying the...
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In Search of Lost Memories (Chapter 4): Prague Revisited
On May 28th 1970, I flew into Vienna on what happened to be an Austrian holiday. The next day I hitched my way out to the Czechoslovak border, crossed it and caught a train for Prague. To my surprise,...
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Freedom (III): Illuminating Ghostly Conclusions
Some examples: Smoking tobacco contributes to a number of lethal diseases, but acts so slowly as to leave the connection unconvincing. For years, I sought a missing insight that could cut through the...
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The Time You Won Your Town the Race
In the Spring of 1995 with the Boston Marathon two or three days away, Wellesley College held a conference allowing the press, students and the public to meet élite, women runners who had gathered from...
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Cancer: A Birds Eye View
Birds of prey kill and regurgitate food to their young. In time they bring back injured animals for offspring to kill and eat on their own. Oncology has these two choices: killing tumor cells outright;...
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The Lost Sapling
Several years ago, I saw a beautiful Umbrella Magnolia tree, and purchased a two-foot sapling to plant in my yard. The spot that I chose had weed saplings all about, but I neglected to mark mine. In...
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Middle East Revisited: Israelis-Palestinians
Currently some Israelis are proposing the annexation of territories, captured in 1967, which lie on the Israeli side of the wall. Ariel Sharon , as Prime Minister, once assured that the barrier had...
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Face to Face with Nature
§ At age five, while visiting my grandmother’s, I noticed many flies and proceeded to swat. She warned me to leave the larger ones in the bathroom alone, but at some point, I began running out of the...
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