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...heat needed to get biological chemistry going." Life is much more complex than this. The statement made by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that "we have organic chemicals mixed into a bath of water. That's a recipe for life" is absurd. The idea that a chemical cocktail stimulated by heat will produce biological life is an insult to science and those who work in the various fields of biology. I suggest that intelligent and fully ordered life such as we have on Earth is not the result of mere chance, but the product of an intelligent Creator. PHILIP BENNETT...
Fujimori had never seen much chance of resolving the standoff peacefully. From the beginning, last Dec. 17, when the rebels seized the embassy residence during a gala cocktail reception, Cerpa had demanded the release of 400 of his comrades who were locked in Peru's harsh prisons. That, Fujimori vowed, he would never agree to. He gave the negotiations a try, if only to mask preparations for the assault. He arranged the promise of safe passage to Cuba for the rebels if they wanted it and appointed Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani as a special negotiator. After the raid...
...problem is David Thompson's book, with its tired cocktail of characters left over from They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, and an odd Twilight Zone chaser. Karen Ziemba combines Broadway pizazz with shy-girl vulnerability as a contestant who partners a stunt pilot (Daniel McDonald) but is secretly married to the marathon's slimy emcee (Gregory Harrison). The mix of nostalgia, cynicism and period artifice, however, keeps us at arm's length from the material (beware of any show in which one character calls another "Flyboy"). The ersatz-'30s numbers are pleasant but forgettable, although Debra Monk...
Guests crowded into an upstairs room at Warren House, mingling at the pre-dinner time cocktail party and exchanging congratulatory smiles...
...When an AIDS PATIENT has stopped responding to today's "cocktail" drug treatments, doctors have had to guess which drug in the mix was no longer effective. A new blood test will enable them to pinpoint exactly which medication the patient is becoming resistant to--and adjust...