...believe gene banks are a waste of money

Article Abstract:

Issues relating to the contention that gene banks are a waste of money are examined in the light of the demand from the Global Conservation Trust for UKPd163 mil in order to prop up a system of gene banks which operate in over 150 countries worldwide storing 5.4 mil samples of crops and their wild relatives. It is argued that claims from the trust that crop diversity collections are in a precarious state are not true and that while some "unimportant" national collections may be at risk, the collections of gene banks in countries such as China, India and Brazil and those held by the 13 international agricultural research institutes are fine, and that these should receive priority funding.

Analysis, Gene banks

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What Said really said

Article Abstract:

Edward Said has been unjustly accused of anti-western bias and of promoting Palestinian propaganda in his Reith lectures, the central theme of which is actually the independence of the intellectual. While emphasizing the need for the intellectual to reject corporate thinking and adopt an independent and critical stance, Said points out the problems involved in actually achieving this in the face of conflicting social, institutional and cultural pressures. The notion of both literal and metaphorical exile is central to Said's idea of the intellectual whose role Said sees as being to oppose prevailing norms.

Speeches, lectures and essays, Said, Edward W.

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After fascism, ideological waste disposal, but what now?

Article Abstract:

Issues concerning the intellectuals of unified Germany are discussed. Postwar West German intellectuals had a prominent role for almost 40 years generating a culture of suspicion, but something new is needed now.

Germany, Germans

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