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...President no doubt, Fortas is a puzzling, enigmatic, even mysterious man. "I wouldn't be surprised," says one of his former law clerks, "if tomorrow I were to find out that Abe Fortas leads a secret life as a published poet in South America." Questioning counsel from the bench, he can be determined, abrupt, relentless in his search for the heart of a case. He can tear a poorly reasoned argument to tatters...
...bench, some say, he is no more agreeable. "Abe Fortas," declares one acquaintance, "is arrogant and abrasive." Says another: "He's cold, distant and cryptic." Others describe him as shy, reticent with people. "Well," allows Thurman Arnold, his former partner and a good friend, "he doesn't go around kissing babies...
...million Americans are hunters, and though accidents kill up to 800 of them each year, few would want their sport circumscribed?or destroyed?by too-stringent gun laws. Thousands of other Americans engage in such pastimes as skeet and trap shooting, muzzle-loading competitions with old-style rifles, and bench-rest shooting, whose enthusiasts weigh their powder, mold their bullets and come close to perfect marksmanship...
...been at the very heart of the greatest and most promising revolution in human history. And when revolutions come, they inevitably tear into the valuable, the precious and the sanctified as well as into the obsolete and the useless." He told students to "get off the mourner's bench; you must not cloak yourself in the mantle of a wailing Cassandra. The great revolution represents birth pangs and not death throes, the life force and not the death wish...
...four embryos that could be flushed out, sex-identified and selectively reimplanted. Since milk-producing cows are far more valuable than a plethora of bulls, the practice promises economic advantages. Human sex determination will be far more difficult, the scientists caution. Obtaining human eggs, fertilizing them on the laboratory bench and culturing the early embryos to the point where sex identification is possible are techniques still far beyond today's laboratory skills. "We may get to human embryos," says Edwards, "but that will be in the long, long future...