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...They believe it is impossible to pursue "pure" research and develop commercial products at the same time. There is even talk that his publicized involvement with Genentech may have cost him a Nobel Prize. But the carping, probably motivated at least in part by jealousy, does not seem to bother Boyer too much. Says he: "If you have a strong conviction that what you're doing is right, then you can stand up against a lot of criticism...
...seating didn't really bother me that day until the white section up front was almost full and the black section was full. Now, if the driver took on more passengers than got off, it meant that some of the newcomers would have to stand. And if they were white the driver was going to have to ask a black passenger in no man's land to move so that a white passenger could sit down...
...thing that seems to bother Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.) the most is dogmatic ideology. Tsongas always frowns at an easy answer, no matter which end of the political spectrum it comes from. He picks apart partisan politics with the passion of an inspired poly-sci professor, noting casually that "a lot of this will be cleared up in my upcoming book." But Tsongas has already sounded his bugle for the charge of "humanistic realism," a leaner, meaner brand of liberalism he thinks will work in the 1980s. With his wordy solutions and academic jargon, Tsongas has, whether...
...snowmobiles. As usual they have chains on their tires. As usual the pickup's doors are flung wide open-so they can bail out at the first sign of the ice breaking up. Last year Don slipped on the ice and fractured his skull, but it does not bother him. Soon they wrestle Chuck's shanty into place...
Planning for the past 15 years for an event he hopes will never occur doesn't bother Hallice, but he does worry that "the Soviets spend a billion where we spend a million...