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...does not matter what course the Sandinistas are taking. The U.S. has no business interfering and trying to alter the direction of their revolution...
...already shaky standing with the White House. Presidential aides recently forced him to decline an invitation to appear on Meet the Press on the ground that it would highlight internal policy differences. A staff member on his own council leaked a story that Feldstein had been forced to alter two speeches and "throw away" a third one because of White House censorship. Top Administration officials have been hinting that Feldstein, who plans to return to his teaching post at Harvard next September, should quit sooner...
...Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote that all men have the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" and "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government." In this framework. I have always believed that rallies are crucial. They provide an important forum for freedom, of expression and an opportunity to educate people. In my opinion, tonight's rally facilitated neither...
What Paoletti and his colleague, Virologist Dennis Panicali, set out to do was to alter the genetic material, or DNA, of cowpox virus by inserting a gene from another virus-herpes, hepatitis B or influenza (see diagram). The goal of these microscopic manipulations is to develop a vaccine that will fool the immune system and make it swing into action. A smallpox preventive that expresses a herpes trait, for instance, will provoke the body into creating antibodies against herpes. The person is then protectively armed against an actual attack of the disease...
...some low-lying areas in coastal cities such as Charleston, S.C., and Galveston, Texas); and drastically changing rainfall patterns, especially in the breadbasket areas of the Midwest, where reduced precipitation could jeopardize crops. Nothing, not even a sharp cutback in the use of fossil fuels, the EPA added, could alter this climatic course...