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Disbarred. Just as Pat was hospitalized, a court across the country dealt the Nixons another blow. Pronouncing formal judgment for the first time on her husband's conduct in office, an appellate division of the New York State Supreme Court disbarred the former President from legal practice in that state. In a 4-to-l opinion, the tribunal found that Nixon had: 1) obstructed justice by impeding an FBI investigation into the Watergate burglary-bugging; 2) interfered with Daniel Ellsberg's legal defense against charges arising from his publication of the Pentagon Papers; 3) attempted to obstruct...
Pipkin is now the head of the Committee on Research Policy. That committee last month approved the building of a facility in which scientists want to conduct potentially hazardous genetic research that involves forming new organisms by artificially combining strands of DNA. There are other parallels between the accelerator that Pipkin worked with and the planned facility his committee now favors. Despite the potential hazards of the research--particularly the danger that the bacteria, once transplanted with foreign DNA, could induce disease and death in humans--the scientists want to perform the experiments in the Biological Laboratories, at 16 Divinity...
...perhaps because they felt so defensive about the cancer issue, decided to emotionalize the debate even further. George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, most notably, focussed almost entirely on an appeal to stop cancer at its environmental sources. Another opponent talked about pressure from above--University Hall specifically--to conduct this research. But, if anything, the Faculty dean's office has been passive in this debate, choosing to listen to the scientists...
...have contended that society actually abhors the punishment and therefore inflicts it mainly on minorities and misfits. The court also held that although there is no proof that capital punishment is effective as a deterrent, it is "an expression of society's moral outrage at particularly offensive conduct," and therefore "an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme crimes." Only dissenting Justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan reaffirmed the traditional liberal view that all executions are, as Marshall put it, a "total denial of human dignity and worth...
...Ordinary garden ants herd aphids, which they milk for their sweet nectar. Some species of ants farm, tending crops of tiny fungi in their underground chambers; others take and keep slaves from rival ant colonies. Species like the driver ants of Africa and the army ants of South America conduct military campaigns with a precision that any general would envy, advancing in columns protected by soldiers over routes carefully scouted by advance parties. Ants are also accomplished architects; African termites, for example, build mounds with thick walls that keep the air inside at a constant temperature all year round. Some...