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...victory rally Tuesday night, Tsongas seemed awkward. Of course, few would be their most refined after winning an big election, but Tsongas' repeated fist-clenching arm-flexing gesticulations struck some as rehearsed...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, | Title: THE CHIC PHENOM OF THE '90s? | 2/22/1992 | See Source »

Above all, You Never Can Tell rejoices in the delights of the improbable actually happening. Shaw manages to "stretch the long arm of coincidence" without stretching our credulity too far. The play should be great entertainment, as long as you keep the creed of Walter the Waiter in mind: "It's the unexpected that always happens--you never can tell...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Shaw's World: Party On, George! | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

...recognizes the threat to the environment and the necessity for a global burden sharing to control it," says Maneka Gandhi, former Minister of the Environment, who represented India at the Montreal Protocol negotiations. "But is it fair that the industrialized countries who are responsible for the ozone depletion should arm-twist the poorer nations into bearing the cost of their mistakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Do You Patch a Hole in the Sky That Could Be as Big as Alaska? | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

Attempts to strong-arm a community into rejecting a leader or an ideology are usually counterproductive. They make people feel isolated and defensive, which only makes them more willing to embrace a Kurt Waldheim or a Leonard Jeffries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Don't Misrepresent Jeffries | 2/11/1992 | See Source »

...unnecessary) and blood samples were sent, along with pedigree data, to James Gusella, a young Canadian scientist working at Massachusetts General Hospital. Using a new technique, he was able to locate a DNA marker close to the Huntington's gene. It lay toward the tip of the short arm of chromosome 4. That discovery led to the development of a test, now 96% accurate, that can determine the presence of the errant gene long before any symptoms show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making The Best of a Bad Gene: NANCY WEXLER | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

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