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Scientists at MIT have developed bacteria that can produce ethanol (for gasohol) out of wood or waste organic matter. The process is cheaper and more efficient than present methods, and does not rely on needed food grains. Now back to the energy crisis.

What this country needs, after Andrew Young, is an equal and opposite reaction—and presto, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved Jeane Kirkpatrick 16 to 0. We will take no position on the appointment beyond noting that we are madly in love with her; any praise beyond this cautious minimum will depend on her performance in office. If her appointment does nothing else, perhaps it will result in the collection of her scattered essays. Her brilliant Commentary piece on “Dictatorships and Double Standards,” which won her the enthusiastic attention of Ronald Reagan, is already widely quoted. Other essays, like her meditation on the McCarthy era and the rise of the New Class, are equally deserving. Blessed be he that appointed her.

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Scientists at MIT have developed bacteria that can produce ethanol (for gasohol) out of wood or waste organic matter. The process is cheaper and more efficient than present methods, and does not rely on needed food grains. Now back to the energy crisis.

What this country needs, after Andrew Young, is an equal and opposite reaction—and presto, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved Jeane Kirkpatrick 16 to 0. We will take no position on the appointment beyond noting that we are madly in love with her; any praise beyond this cautious minimum will depend on her performance in office. If her appointment does nothing else, perhaps it will result in the collection of her scattered essays. Her brilliant Commentary piece on “Dictatorships and Double Standards,” which won her the enthusiastic attention of Ronald Reagan, is already widely quoted. Other essays, like her meditation on the McCarthy era and the rise of the New Class, are equally deserving. Blessed be he that appointed her.