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Yesterday, President Bush embarked upon an extended trip to Latin America, which The Economist recently described as “a region he has neglected throughout much of his presidency.”
The timing was impeccable - The very week we were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, we also learned of a major advance in agricultural biotechnology. On February 25, the Environmental Protection Agency granted commercial approval to a new kind of genetically modified crop that will fight rootworm, the corn farmer’s most destructive pest.
“When a man tells me he’s going to put all his cards on the table, I always look up his sleeve,” said Leslie Hore-Belisha, the British secretary of state for war when the Second World War broke out.
Everybody’s afraid of something, but not all fears are created equal.
I was hoping to score a laugh. The laughs came and also loud applause when I recently suggested that the western parts of Canada and the United States form their own country. That way, I said, Ottawa and Washington could do their thing and we could do ours.
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