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...Government under control." No other potential President, from Kennedy to Connally, "would be more likely to recognize the bureaucratic pitfalls than a re-elected President Carter with four years of painful education behind him; nor would they offer the stability of character that is Jimmy Carter's greatest strength." The final verdict: "I am prepared to vote for him again...
...could show that helping a people towards recovery is more important than monetary gain. Instead, if Mr. Bok's arguments are followed to their logical conclusion, the Corporation probably will with-draw its support from the companies in South Africa, the very support which today it says ensures the greatest probability of a peaceful end to apartheid...
After some 45 years in medicine, Thomas remains a carrier of infectious enthusiasm. "It's the greatest damned entertainment in the world," he says of his work. "It's just plain fun learning some thing that you didn't know . . . There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded." He is still astonished at things that others, mistakenly, take for granted. Why, he muses in The Medusa and the Snail, did people make such a fuss over the test-tube baby in England? The true miracle was, as always, the union of egg and sperm...
...greatest fears center on the herds of caribou, whose annual migrations across the arctic wastes began long before the first Siberians touched North America. Biologist David R. Klein of the Alaska Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit has already spotted trouble in a herd of some 6,000 caribou that has traditionally ranged north to south from the Arctic Ocean to the foothills of the Brooks Range. Since the coming of the pipeline, says Klein, cows with calves have shown a marked reluctance to pass under the raised stretches of the conduit and to cross the road itself. Migratory patterns also seem...
...terms of how they match up. Don, in order to stay even, would really have to play over his head." Benjamin said. "There doesn't seem to me to be anything he can do to burn Jay. If Don plays the greatest match of his life and Jay's really off, you know, anything's possible, but I'd have to say at this point that Don's not in the same league...