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Hart's earnest rebuttals and belated attempts to deflect the barb with humor (he held his book, A New Democracy, between hamburger buns) did little to stem the damage. For Mondale's purposes, it was almost as if a subtle anti-Hart ad campaign had been running nationally for two months. The Wendy's chain has spent more than $8 million broadcasting its "Where's the beef?" TV ads (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). By comparison, Mondale and Hart between them have spent $2.2 million on TV advertising. Has an adman's whimsy been carried...
Geneticist Barb McClintock, ignored for years, wins a Nobel
...world has finally begun to catch up with "Barb" McClintock. The Nobel Prize Committee hailed her once obscure work as "one of the two great discoveries of our times in genetics," the other being the 1953 discovery, by James Watson and Francis Crick, of the double-helix structure of DNA. In 82 years of Nobel history, just six other women have won honors in scientific categories; and only two of these were named alone, without fellow honorees: France's Marie Curie in 1911, for discovering radium and polonium, and Britain's Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in 1964, for deciphering...
...called three years from now in Perth? The Cup was not named for this country but for the yacht which beat a fleet of British boats in the first series way back in 1856. Calling it Australia II's Cup for the next few years would be a fitting barb to leave in the NYYC's flesh...
Walesa's pointed barb at Military Ruler General Wojciech Jaruzelski indicated that the former Solidarity leader had no intention of retiring from public life, even though Pope John Paul II was rumored to have suggested such a move during his recent visit to Poland. As all Poles are well aware, Aug. 31 marks the third anniversary of the signing of the agreement at the Lenin shipyard that created Solidarity. The military regime, apparently fearful that Walesa's mere presence at the yard might encourage a wave of antigovernment demonstrations, preferred that he be out of town. Walesa...