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...aplenty in a gossipy column called Inadmissible, but its first concern is keeping tabs on the capital's regulatory maze and the revolving door that spins lawyers between the public and private sectors. "We like to think we are helping lawyers in their work," says Managing Editor David Beckwith, 36, a lawyer and former TIME law writer. "The other publications are into national trends and lighter stuff." Legal Times 'circulation is small (currently 3,500) but the price tag is hefty ($125 a year...
...three publications want lawyers who can write and reporters who can tell an assault from a battery. "Most people who can do both prefer to work as lawyers because of the money and the status," admits Beckwith. "For some reason, a lawyer working as a journalist is comparable to a doctor driving a garbage truck...
After agonizing for eight months, Webster announced a cautious decision. He fired two supervisors. They are Horace Beckwith, who headed Squad 47, and Brian Murphy, a Beckwith aide who, according to Webster, gave answers "unworthy of belief to questions about the burglaries. Another former supervisor, Charles Lunsford, was demoted for giving what Webster termed "evasive and inconsistent" answers. Suspended for 30 days was former Supervisor Gerard Hogan, for installing a listening device without a warrant. Two agents received wrist-tapping letters of censure. The other members of Squad 47 were not punished...
...possibility, saying that the major barrier--inducing an egg fertilized with an implanted body cell nucleus to develop--could not yet be overcome. They say that since a frog was successfully cloned in the early '60s, researchers have been unable to clone a mouse, let alone a man. Jonathan Beckwith '57, professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the Medical School, voices a common objection to Rorvik's claim: "I'm sort of surprise that the barriers could have been overcome so quickly and without hearing about...
...Beckwith goes on to say that recent developments "make Rorvik's claims not inconceivable." He adds that recent objections have "less to do with the state of the technology than with the entrenchment of biologists." Many researchers in genetics are apparently afraid of a public debate over cloning, alarmed by the controversy over recombinant DNA, and are trying to play down the issue. They fear that such debate may slow related research and put science in the hands of politicians...