The nation’s foremost opponent of environmental neglect and genetic engineering is waving a $20 bill as he makes a bet.
The Most Hated Man In Science: JEREMY RIFKIN
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Sex in the Syllabus
With classwork like this, who needs to play?
Education: Hard Times for S.D.S.
After the radical Students for a Democratic Society split into angry factions at the organization's convention last June, the question was whether any of them could mount an effective “fall offensive.” The answer is no.
Is Technology Moving Too Fast?
The newest technologies–computers, genetic engineering and the emerging field of nanotech–differ from the technologies that preceded them in a fundamental way. The telephone, the automobile, television and jet air travel accelerated for a while, transforming society along the way, but then settled into a manageable rate of change
IMF’s Dominique Strauss-Kahn Defended by French Press
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has not been convicted of any crime.
Death Be Not Proud
I belong to a generation of Europeans for whom the United States embodies democracy, progress and liberty. I went there as a student after the war.
The Chanel Jacket
Every designer’s dream is to create something so stylish it transcends fashion and becomes a classic: the Gucci loafer, the Burberry trench coat, the Hermes bag. Creating something iconic is only half the battle; it’s what comes next that counts–the tweaks that render these things as cool today as they were the year they were created
Making Time For A Baby
Listen to a successful woman discuss her failure to bear a child, and the grief comes in layers of bitterness and regret.
Poverty: Grilled Shriver
Many critics of the Great Society's war on poverty accuse the Administration of spending too much too loosely. Last week a group of dedicated anti-poverty warriors charged heatedly that it is doling out too little too cautiously
The Revolution Stops Here
Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the influential Qatar-based Islamic scholar, recently preached that the “train of the Arab revolution” had arrived in Syria. Syria could well be ripe for upheaval