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Elizabeth Dole gets ready for every event as if she's having tea with the Queen. At a rally in a tobacco warehouse so humid we all feel like chain smokers, Dole appears in a bubble-gum pink suit with beige pumps and stockings. If someone were to, say, spill barbecue on her, a mint green spare is hanging in her Buick sedan...
...ofplace. She's trying to be looser now as she runs to replace retiring North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms against former Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles. After her stump speech about religion, the troops, jobs and schools, and an hour of meet-and-greet, I ask Dole, 66, why she isn't sweating. She hunches up her shoulders and motions for me to reachinside her jacket. "Feel the back of my neck," she offers. "I'm drenched." I take her word...
...script this time is that Dole is unscripted. I catch on after three people, including Dole herself, tell me how she jumped on aHarley to roar into an auditorium at Duke University, which, of course, was entirely scripted. The crowd is not terribly specific about why they like her, but they do love her. One says Dole is "so much like Jesse," another marvels at how Dole's "mother over there in Salisbury is 101 years old," while a white-haired gentleman gushes over "what a pretty lady she is." He puts a yellow pride in tobacco...
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...licenses its research projects to commercial institutions so that the general public can have access to and make use of this technology, according to HMS spokesperson Don Gibbons. In fact, the 1984 Bayh-Dole Act requires universities that have acquired federal funding for their research to commercialize their projects so that the technology can have an impact in the society...