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...rational policy can be set until scientists confirm or refute the evidence of the wolves' return. So the painstaking examination of the animal killed last month is beginning to resemble the autopsy of a slain President. Forensic tests to examine wear of the beast's paws and teeth support the notion that it is a wild wolf. Preliminary analysis of the skull is inconclusive. Now researchers are trying to match the animal's genetic material with that of known populations of wolves...
Virginia E. Papaioannou, associate professor of pathology at Tufts Medical School and wife of Mellon Professor of the Social Sciences Simon M. Schama, would not confirm the offer yesterday. But a senior Harvard official said the University has known of the offer from Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons since early summer...
...bomber pilot Lieut. Colonel Joseph Morrison, shot down on Nov. 25, 1968. He died after he parachuted safely to the ground. But the F-4D is a two-seat aircraft, and Pentagon analysts noted one photo of Morrison's personal effects showed an extra pistol; this led them to confirm the death of his back-seater San D. Francisco. Intelligence analysts now expect that the Hanoi museum material already in hand may clear up 23 of the 135 so-called discrepancy cases, where the U.S. knows an individual survived a plane crash or was captured, but has not been able...
Although the memorandum was issued before the debate began, it declared the following: "Tonight was a clear win, a big win for the President...Bill Clinton came in a cautious and weak third place." Then after the debate, to confirm the conspiracy, the scripted words spilled obediently from the lips of Bush campaign advisers. All night they cawed in unison: "It was a big win for the President." "Clinton was cautious and weak," they astutely explained to whomever would listen...
...Schwab did confirm that she faces apossible charge of possession of a controlledsubstance. He said police action will depend oninformation from lab analysis of the recovereddrug and discussion with the district attorney'soffice...