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According to Elledge, White's college education seemed to strengthen and confirm rather than shape or remold his character. He chose Cornell rather than any other college because his older brothers had studied ther and because "Cornell was less uncomfortably elitist, less discriminatory, less homogenous than Harvard. Yale or Princeton,"--schools he could easily have entered. In the course of his years in college. White became editor-in-chief of the Cornell Daily Sun, a post which seems to have meant more to him than any other single experience...
...Peter Ellison, head of the research team and a member of the Anthropology Department explained that the results only confirm a previously held notion that rapid weight loss and intense physical exertion may lead to short team suppressive effects of the reproductive functions...
...unknown effects of acid rain on the microorganisms in soil that break down natural wastes into carbon and nitrogen. Committee Chairman William A. Neirenberg--director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography--called this "a worrisome thing...that you're not going to sit around and wait 20 years" to confirm...
...coincidence, the U.S. announced last week that Soviet use of toxic gas had dramatically declined. In a report to the United Nations, the State Department said the U.S. could not confirm any chemical warfare by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan last year. It added that Soviet-backed governments in Laos and Kampuchea had used less lethal toxic weapons against local dissidents...
...against "insulting the head of state," up from three in the preceding 14 years. De Gaulle's Sun King tendency to equate himself with France's destiny led to his undoing. After the student and worker protests of May 1968, he demanded a referendum to confirm his mandate. He lost, resigned the presidency and retired to his home in the Lorraine village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises. De Gaulle died less than two years later, at 79, while playing solitaire...