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ABOUT THE ONLY EXCITEMENT IN AN AMOEBA'S LIFE is the chance to inflict major intestinal distress on unwary world travelers. And as every high school student knows, these one-celled blobs of protoplasm never get to fool around; they reproduce asexually, by splitting in two. But now comes a report in the journal Heredity that suggests amoebas are not dull so much as discreet. French scientists have looked at the genetic material of species of amoebas and found that their genes show the telltale signs of sexual mixing. They've never been caught in the act, though...
...satellite in distress is Intelsat-6, designed to carry international telephone traffic. It was launched in 1990 but was stranded 345 miles up -- about 22,000 miles short of its assigned orbit. The astronauts will pull the 4.5-ton satellite into the shuttle's cargo bay, strap a booster rocket onto it and send it on its way. Then four of them will suit up and go outside to try out construction techniques that will be used on the U.S. space station, Freedom, scheduled to be built by the late 1990s. They will also test the "astrorope," a device astronauts...
...write to associate myself publicly and unequivocally with the good work of Dr. S. Allen Counter Jr. and the Harvard Foundation; and to record as well my distress at the ill-focussed recent attention cast on Dr. Counter and his work. No individual or program at Harvard is immune to criticism and that is as it must be in as critical and contentious a community as this. Harvard people are never without an opinion even if they are not fully informed on those matters in which they hold such strong opinions. We all know and understand this...
...report also noted that the "Confrontationalnature" of some of the students' actions was notpremeditated and that the students expressedregret to staff members for any distress they mayhave caused them shortly after the event...
Fuzzy markers delight the G.O.P., and a foretaste of the war to come was glimpsed clearly on the night before Bush's feigned distress. Minutes after Bill Clinton won the New York food fight last Tuesday, Republican Party chairman Rich Bond gleefully recalled Jerry Brown's characterization of Clinton as "the prince of sleaze." They've "got them all on tape," says Bond. "Paul Tsongas calling Clinton a 'Pander Bear'; Ed Koch saying, 'It happens that Bill Clinton has no credibility'; Mario Cuomo calling Clinton's middle-class tax cut 'a joke...