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It sounds like vintage Hollywood. Driven from the university by Italy's Fascists just before World War II, a brilliant young Jewish biologist persists in her pioneering research into the nervous system, using makeshift equipment in a farmhouse bedroom. Food is so scarce that after experimenting on chicken embryos, she...
Ralph Coffman, 46-year-old head of the college's Burns Library, which houses rare books among its 50,000 volumes, was arrested Monday on a complaint alleging he brought 52 stolen books worth an estimated $160,000 to the New York auctioneer Sotheby's this summer.
Logical? Certainly. Difficult to sell to a party still studded with feisty factions? Again, certainly. Just look at some of the hottest primaries this year. Democrats have said, quite plainly, that the moderate line by itself bores them. Passion, whether lighted by the flame of old- fashioned liberalism or populism...
What does Captain Eo, a.k.a. Michael Jackson, do to relax after a hard day of defending the galaxy? Why, he just pops into his custom-made $125,000 hyperbaric chamber, of course. Jackson's spaced-out method of getting his beauty rest came to light in a photograph of the...
EGYPTAIR. Last December three Arab terrorists accused of belonging to the Libyan-supported Abu Nidal group diverted a Boeing 737 to Malta. After five passengers were shot and the captain pleaded for aid, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ordered a commando raid. In the attack, 58 of the 79 hostages left...