Word: california
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Friday's The American Bar, a new variation of the T.G.I. Friday's restaurant, is trying to fill the space left by California Pizza Kitchen in Harvard Square's profitable market...
What he was saying is this: "So differing density levels within the protein itself can affect the uniformity of the freezing process?" A Genentech scientist nodded agreement. California Senator Barbara Boxer and Representative Tom Lantos smiled gamely. And Gore asked question after question: "Is this a process you patented? What software program do you use? Do you get stock options?" Soon he joined a roomful of scientists to deliver an ode to the job-creation benefits of the federal research-and-development tax credit...
...linked, sometimes in bizarre, uncanny ways. Consider the couple's current chief tormentor, independent counsel Starr. Last year, in a decision he later reversed under pressure from Republican lawmakers, Starr announced that he was leaving his job to become dean of the law and public policy schools at California's Pepperdine University. The chair Starr had set his sights on, as it happened, was endowed by a certain Richard Mellon Scaife, an archconservative Pennsylvania billionaire who also happens to publish the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Tribune-Review, a newspaper whose star reporter, Christopher Ruddy (hang in there; this pays off) is notorious...
...hasty legislation could easily be too restrictive. Last year, for instance, Florida considered a law that would have barred the cloning of human DNA, a routine procedure in biomedical research. California passed badly worded legislation that temporarily bans not just human cloning but also a procedure that shows promise as a new treatment for infertility...
...your story on Republican activist Gary Bauer [NATION, Jan. 19], you referred to "radio evangelist Rev. James Dobson." Dr. Dobson is not a minister. He has a Ph.D. in child development from the University of Southern California, where he served as an associate clinical professor of pediatrics for 14 years. He is now president of Focus on the Family, a nonprofit media organization. CHARLES W. JARVIS Executive Vice President Focus on the Family Colorado Springs, Colo...