Bruce Jackson
Bruce Jackson
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There's a very, very great misconception among people who read about DNA technology that it's a magic bullet and it's not. It's a very powerful tool and probably the most powerful in terms of human identification, but it's not the only tool.
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I think that's all been settled, I don't know what their point is now, anyway.
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It was about things he had always wanted to write about, but was never quite able to.
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You can't live as long as I have and not have lost a lot of friends,
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Most email I get is from readers suggesting links they think might be of interest or people submitting articles or ideas for articles.
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If Ukraine holds out and manages to strike a compromise with Russia, then Russia's ambitions to restore its influence in this part of the former Soviet empire could be finished.
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The jobs may be there. The question is, at what cost do those jobs come? They're not free.
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France hasn't been a member of NATO's military command for the last 37 years, so their agreement on military planning isn't even required.
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We thought we needed a publication base for works in progress that deserved some light at this point, or for works that didn't fit other publication categories.
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Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
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Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
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War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.
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It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
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The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.