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JAMES J. GIBBONS recently fathered a child born with a cleft palate. Gibbons served in areas of Vietnam sprayed with an herbicide containing the lethal chemical dioxin. Searching for an explanation and aid money for his child, Gibbons appealed to the Army, with no success. As a last resort he wrote his Congressman, "I am desperate and don't know where else to turn...
...making more than $100,000 a year, and at least 16 make $200,000 or more (see box). Of course, stratospheric salaries were common at the networks even before Barbara Walters signed her million-dollar contract with ABC two years ago. What is new is that the pearly-toothed, cleft-chinned basso profundos who tell the way it was in your home town are starting to earn network-size salaries. "Only three or four years ago it was significant if an anchor earned $100,000," says Richard Leibner, one of a growing number of talent agents who serve local newscasters...
Furthermore, Emmerich "wonders how DeVore can make such a statement [on the narrow cleft between humans and other species] when the human evidence for his theories is simply nonexistent." Evidence is sparse at the moment, and this may be a valid criticism of the paradigm but I am sure Mr. Emmerich is not at all familiar with the body of data being generated to support sociobiological theory. To say it is "simply nonexistent" is to engage in a polemic which is neither fair nor scholarly correct...
...beings are qualitatively unique organisms. Without being spiritualistic, psychology and sociology show that the amazing capacity of the human brain and the development of a consciousness have created an enormous chasm between humans and other species--a chasm Devore naively claims "has almost disappeared and is now a narrow cleft." One wonders how Devore can make such a statement when the human evidence for his theories is simply nonexistent. The sociobiologists offer no evidence meeting the most basic requirements of an experimental design that such traits as xenophobia, religion, and social dominance are in any way coded in the genes...
...geological oddity-a volcanic crater 10 kilometers (6 miles) in diameter and dotted with smaller volcanoes. Inside the crater is a remarkable blue-green lake on which seaplanes carrying sightseers can land. The more adventuresome can canoe down the Aniakchak River, which flows out of the lake through a cleft in the crater wall and drops some 600 meters (2,000 ft.) and 43 kilometers (27 miles) to the North Pacific...