Word: begun
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...begun to make some accommodations to age. He has become compulsive about working the phones while sunning on his Senate veranda -- the tan he works hard on, says a Senator, is his "secret weapon." Dole admits to putting "a little stuff'' on his hair to keep out the gray, although he insists he does not color his eyebrows. And he sometimes slips off to his new hideaway near his office for a nap on a couch that Dole nabbed when Senator Howard Metzenbaum retired last year...
...true that Arafat has begun to score successes in everyday governance that amount if not to nation building, at least to nation tending. The Education Ministry has built 250 new classrooms in the Gaza Strip, and half the schools there have been modestly refurbished. Palestinian TV has been broadcasting in the Gaza Strip since last year, and experimental programs began in the West Bank last month. In joint ventures with private investors, the Housing Ministry has put up 4,000 apartments in the Gaza Strip. The hospital in Jericho has been renovated...
...congressional assistance would sharply slow the process. Laws permitting some competition in local phone service are already on the books in eight states, including New York, Illinois and Washington; 18 others are drafting measures to encourage more firms to enter the field. Under current provisions, Time Warner has begun to offer packages of cable-TV and local phone service in Rochester, New York; the company intends to provide similar plans to most of its 11.5 million U.S. cable subscribers over the next several years...
Only during the past decade have scientists begun to tease apart the mysteries of Hox genes. Clustered in groups of eight to 11, on as many as four chromosomes in a developing embryo's cells, these genes switch on and off in sequence. Since embryos mature from the top down, explains biologist Cliff Tabin of the Harvard Medical School, a Hox gene that turns off a bit early, or stays on just a touch longer, can make a dramatic difference in the formation of the embryo. Swans, for example, have more neck vertebrae than chickens and thus longer necks. That...
More damaging to Rimm are two books that he wrote, excerpts of which have begun to circulate on the Internet. One is a salacious privately published novel, An American Playground, based on his experience with casinos. The other, also privately published, is titled The Pornographer's Handbook: How to Exploit Women, Dupe Men & Make Lots of Money. Rimm says it's a satire; others saw it offering practical advice to adult-bulletin-board operators about how to market pornographic images effectively...