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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political wrangling that has surrounded recombinant DNA experiments has forced scientists to face the issue of accountability to the public that funds their experiments. Lear documents how some scientists have struggled to avoid this responsibility, and his detailed presentation of the political battle as well as his clear explanation of its scientific background make this book important reading for the layman...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Behind the Genetics Controversy | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...would take another spectacular play by Woolway to wake the offense from its second half siesta and put the game out of reach. Wit six minutes left, the Woodsmen took over at their own 32 with a clear shot at victory. Faced with a third and three situation at the 39, Teevens rolled left and gunned the ball for tailback Jim, Eden...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Gridders Chain-Saw Woodsmen, 24-19 | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...still had Nixon to hate? Meanwhile, he and Mailer probably voted for Carter, just the same as you and me. The sentiments are still there--as Mailer wrote in 1958, the shits are still out to get us. But who are they? Definitions blur, and only one thing remains clear. As Dorothy said, (and as one of the chapters in Gravity's Rainbow begins)-- "Gee, Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas any more...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Laughter, Loneliness and Sex | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...Ladies' Home Journal (in both she has published short stories). but when Margaret, Isabel's old housekeeper, reappears towards the end, the writing tightens up again. Margaret practically embodies that stubborn, un-American subculture, which the author seems to identify with Catholicism. Even if Final Payments lacks a clear message and Mary Gordon's language often crumples under the weight of her cliches, at least one gets the sense of a writer searching for her own voice...

Author: By Giselle Falkenberg, | Title: Twentieth Century Sin | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Krause said yesterday that though he made these remarks, he also made it clear at the seminar that University policy expressly prohibits workers' wearing of beards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No-Beard Rule Sparks Protest By Quad Dining-Hall Workers | 10/21/1978 | See Source »

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