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...Cambridge Experiment Review Board (CERB), a team of Harvard biologists presses on with what it calls "ground-breaking" experiments using even more obscure strains of E. coli recombinant DNA. At 11:30 on December 31, the head of the research team announces that "a cancer cure may be only fifteen minutes away." At midnight, he turns into a pumpkin...
When Congress passed a bill last year eliminating Medicaid funds for abortions, the action was challenged in the courts. Last June the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Government is under no constitutional obligation to finance abortions if the mother's health is not in jeopardy. Fifteen states have also cut off public funds for the medical procedure, and the number is bound to grow. The Houston conference voted to restore that funding...
...asks you to believe a capacity for hurt in Pomme so extreme that it will send her to a sanitarium. When Francois and Pomme break up, you can see she has already begun to become restless, yet her down-to-earth resilience unaccountably fails her. Why, in the last fifteen minutes, must Goretta turn his lighthearted film into something as heavy as The Story of Adele...
...choose to remain free will be subject to the risks and fears of violence. Indeed, the potential for evil will soar if terrorists get their hands on new biological, chemical and radiological?to say nothing of nuclear?arms with which to frighten the innocent. Warns Laqueur: "In ten or fifteen years, terrorists will have the weapons of superviolence; then perhaps even a single person will be able to blackmail an entire town, district or country." To combat tomorrow's terrorist, new and creative measures, as well as an unprecedented degree of international cooperation, will be required. The one certainty...
...final play, he broke swiftly to his left. Fifteen yards into his run, he cut to his right, danced a couple of quick fakes to elude two tacklers, elbowed another out of his way and, under a full head of steam now, bowled over his last hefty pursuer. "That," said an admiring opponent, "is one of the best broken-field runs I've ever seen." OJ. Simpson passing the 10,000-yd. mark in rushing? No, Reggie Jackson ending the baseball season with a mad dash through victory-crazed fans to the safety of the New York Yankee dugout...