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With the 2004 electoral clock ticking amid growing public concern about U.S. casualties and chaos in Iraq, the Bush administration’s hawks are upping the ante militarily. To those familiar with the CIA’s Phoenix assassination program in Vietnam, Latin America’s death squads or Israel’s official policy of targeted murders of Palestinian activists, the results are likely […]

Rapture: How Biotech Became the New Religion By Brian Alexander, Basic Books, 289 pages, $25.95 Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension By Stephen S. Hall, Houghton Mifflin, 439 pages, $25.00 To see what happens when market forces meet wishful thinking, just have a look at the history of anti-aging medicine. In […]