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It’s the end of the road
WedNEsdAy, FebRUARy 7, 2000
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A farewell to my car
The first car I ever owned, a
little, silver blue colored Dodge
Colt, has served me for over two
years, until last week when it said
¡good bye lorever- in an odd way
- by burning down to the ground.
I was never in a fire before. I
was never even close to one.
The only time I watched some
thing burn was when I attempted
to cook something. I burned
toast, noodles, rice, and even
water, but watching my car get
toasted was quite different.
I was on my way to school and
I was late as usual, but every
thing seemed to be fine. As I
turned onto Clairmont drive and
passed Clairmont Hall, I noticed
a strange smell. I stopped at the
slop sign and suddenly there
was heavy smoke coming out of
the hood. Wondering what was
going on, I just sat there holding
JASON LINGEL/ Clackamas Print
on to the steering wheel while
Last Wednesday around 9a.m., Print Feature Editor Maggie Jirasek's car burst into flames
watching the smoke get darker
at the stop sign on Clairmont Drive.
and darker. My other two passen-
gers had already gotten out of
the car when I heard someone minutes later-my car was pretty and even now, I still don’t un- like me, with a burned-up car.
Thinking about it now, I real
derstand what exactly hap
yelling at me to get out. I opened much gone. The only
pened. One of the officers ize it was just a piece of metal,
the door, grabbed
told me that something and I’m really glad that nobody
some of my bclong-
might have been wrong with was harmed. Just imagine what
ings, and then I
the carburetor. To be truth would have happened if it had
was out of there.
ful, I have to admit that I caught on fire somewhere in
Everything went
don’t know anything about the parking lot where other cars
so fast. The next
Maggie Jirasek cars except where to put the could have been damaged.
thing I remembered
Feature Editor
oil. Now I realize how impor Well, I’m glad I got out of that
was that I was
tant it is to get your car car without being hurt. The
standing
there
watching my poor little car burst parts that probably stayed un checked once in a while and make only bad thing was that I
sure that everything is all right? smelled like a bonfire for the
into flames. When the fire depart harmed were the back tires.
It was quite a scary experience, Otherwise you might end up just rest of the day.
ment finally arrived - about five
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Dusten Lunsford
Follow the
white rabbit
~Let them eat golden rice~
A cyclone in India killed 10,000
people. As an act of humanitarian
ism, the United States sent corn and
soy meal to the demolished coun
try. Many scientists cried foul, and
accused the government of using
the cyclone
victims as
“guinea
P>gs”.
Why? The
grains sent
over were
from a new
batch of ge-
netically
modified crops. Some troubling
questions are raised by this appar
ent act of kindness - is it better to
starve than to eat genetically altered
food that has not been tested? Last
year, opponents of agricultural bio
technology begged Kenya to reject
com donated from the United States
and Canada because it was geneti
cally modified, even though a
drought had hit the country hard
and over five million people were
starving. One biotech company is
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Katie Espinoza
giving away free seeds of “Golden
Rice” to poor countries. The rice,
containing bacteria and genes from
daffodils, is supposed to be higher
in Vitamin A. But is this kindness?
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Take a stand
Corinne Rupp
Opinion Editor
Biotechnology critics are them
selves being criticized. Until recently,
the debate had been centered on the
United States and anti-biotech Eu
rope. These western cultures have
little risk of mass starvation the way
Africa or India does. Coming from
wealthy countries where choice is
available, these guys have a hard
time convincing the emerging coun
tries in question that biotechnology
is wrong.
“To deny desperately hungry
means to c<
tures by presuming to know what is
best for them is not only paternalis
tic but morally wrong,” said Hassan.
Adamu, the former minister of agri
culture for Nigeria.
So what’s the big stink around ge
netically modified foods? Their de
tractors see the altered seed as be
ing destructive to personal health,
the environment, and the economy
of developing nations. The biotech
companies working on the new grain
^varieties often tout a “feed the
world” philosophy to defend them
selves. But if that is the case, why
aren’t they working on drought re
sistant millet for substance farmers
in Africa instead of herbicide resis
tant soybeans for farmers in the
Midwest?
Making starving nations
choose between unknown geneti
cally modified crops or certain
hunger and death is cruel. Giving
away poison candy is not the way
to feed the world. In this country,
we already throw away tons of raw
crops. Why not be truly humani
tarian and give those to our less
fortunate neighbors instead of
casting off the potentially danger
ous unknown on starving popula
tions?
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