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...claims.) But this lack of funny incident, of weird quirks is what separates the book from other inside tours of biology, such as Horace Judson's The Eighth Day of Creation. Judson made the most of personalities. of squabble. of anecdotes; this dirt makes his book memorable. Goodfield is content to let the madness come from the pace of research rather than from its participants and she's not always successful...
That would, of course, still leave millions of handguns illegally in circulation; the penalties for possessing such weapons, and especially for using them in crime, would have to be severe. Even at that, it would take years to start cleansing the nation of handguns. Whatever its content, no substantive program for controlling guns probably stands any chance of getting through Congress unless Ronald Reagan supports it. He ought to do so, not because he has been shot in the chest but because it should be done...
When Big Business wanted to nake noise in Washington in recent years, it called on an elite corps of corporate chieftains. Not content to leave the lobbying to hired hands, members of the Business Roundtable, composed of chief executive officers from some 200 major corporations, personally trod White House and congressional corridors to press for business tax breaks or to protest nitpicking Government regulations. Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro, General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy, Chase Manhattan Chairman David Rockefeller and General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones became almost as familiar around the capital as the Marine Band, promoting not only...
...wait--that's not all. Thirteen-year-old Krissie has sprinted to times that are faster than any of her older sisters at their comparable stages of swimming development, and Mama Rapp--not content to rest after her own successful swimming career--is now ranked as one of the finest, if not the finest, over-40 Masters runners in the country...
...Harvard may not be Auschwitz but that does not mean that we have to be content with what we have." Colantuono said...