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Plans for the division, which had been discussed for nearly two years, stalled last spring when prospective CB professors cited flaws in preliminary plans...
...Faculty affirms the proposal next month, as observers say is almost certain, the department will divide into the departments of Cellular and Developmental Biology (CDB) and Comparative Biology (CB...
That split will formalize existing functional divisions within Biology, where members of CDB and CB now make separate appointments and admit graduate students independently...
...bloody years keep rolling by without guns becoming subject to the kind of regulation we calmly apply to drugs, cars, boat trailers, CB radios and dogs? The answer is only partly that the National Rifle Association is, by some Senators' estimate, the most effective lobbying organization in Washington and the deadliest at targeting its congressional enemies at election time. The nation now has laws, all right-a patchwork of some 25,000 gun regulations, federal, state and local, that are so scattered and inconsistent as to be preposterously ineffectual...
...springing up in most large cities, often with the enthusiastic support of police. These groups try to get to know who belongs in a neighborhood and who the chronic troublemakers are, and they keep an eye on suspicious strangers. Many have car patrols that stay in touch by CB radio. The watch groups usually avoid confronting a potential criminal but call the police...