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Some 100,000 Americans contract hepatitis each year from blood transfusions. In 90% of the cases, the culprit is a mystery virus that can be identified only by a process of elimination: when tests confirm that it is neither Type A nor Type B hepatitis, a diagnosis of nonA, non-B is made. For years scientists have sought to find the unseen villain. Last week researchers at the Food and Drug Administration announced a breakthrough...
...speculation that official pressure might prompt the clubs to open their doors to women came to an abrupt end last week, with all nine of the single-sex institutions opting to continue their all-male punching policies. And that decision should soundly confirm an already obvious choice for the CCL and the College--cut the ties. Administrators are worried about the clubs because their sex discrimination might endanger federal funding, but we worry about the clubs because they are exclusive and elitist. To this end, the exclusion of women is simply a logical extension of an already discriminatory selection process...
...press conference in Birmingham later in the day, Bush proceeded to dig himself in deeper. Asked to confirm the wording of his remark, he replied, "I didn't use 'a little' " (the tape established that he had, though). He agreed that he had used "an old Texas football expression" and added, "I stand behind it." He would not apologize to Ferraro, he said, because the remark was not aimed at her. "It was a way of assessing victory. She would understand this. She's a good competitor." Ferraro's comment: "I would not address my opponent in the same...
...next move was to contact astronomers at the Lawerence Berkeley Laboratory in California who employed specialzed telescopes to attempt to see the phenomenon. After three nights of observations they detected something unusual, but because the pulsar is visible only from the Southern Hempisphere they were unable to confirm its visibile existance until they moved to the 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chilie...
Though the Supreme Court does sometimes "follow the election returns," the Justices more often follow the dictates of legal precedent or their own consciences. The public's only real influence on the high court comes through its power to elect Presidents, who appoint the Justices, and Senators, who confirm them. Once a Justice enters the court's sanctum, he can stay for life.* The high court that begins its traditional nine-month term this week is a gerontocracy: five of the nine Justices are 75 or older. Not since Franklin Roosevelt railed against the Nine Old Men almost...