Word: hilled
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Little more than a month ago, they were just two chemists, toiling in virtual anonymity. But B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann came last week to Washington as heroes, visionaries and scientific superstars. With a mob of reporters following along, the thermodynamic duo marched onto Capitol Hill to tell Congress how their simple tabletop experiment had generated fusion, the nuclear reaction that powers the sun. Displaying slides filled with complex equations, wielding electronic pointers and pulling a mockup of their apparatus from a plastic shopping bag, the bespectacled researchers mesmerized the members of the House Committee on Science, Space...
...choice leaders now say the Washington demonstration is just the beginning of a long campaign to guarantee abortion rights. After the march, they hit the offices of Capitol Hill lawmakers to lobby for a federal law that would keep abortion legal even if the court reverses Roe. Activists dumped 200,000 letters at the Justice Department last week, urging Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to drop his request to the court that it overturn Roe. "This has for the past 15 years been a legal struggle," said Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "It has now become...
...Capitol Hill lawmakers are receiving cassettes of Abortion: For Survival, a half-hour video produced by the Fund for the Feminist Majority. It is intended to counter The Silent Scream, a 1985 antiabortion film that shows a twelve- week-old fetus being swept from the womb. The new video depicts an actual abortion that lasts 84 seconds and shows two aborted embryos, amounting to about two tablespoons of blood and tissue. The point is to illustrate that what is removed during most abortions -- more than 90% are carried out in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy -- is not the near...
Kari Meylor never knew what hit her. The eleven-year-old skier was standing at the bottom of a hill, her back to the slope, at Winter Park, Colo., last Feb. 17. Suddenly another skier, Howard Hidle, 31, came hurtling down the hill. He barreled into Kari, the force of the collision throwing him 20 ft. into a stack of ski racks. Kari died the next day. A week after that incident, Terrence Coghlan, 38, crashed into Russell Wittman, 8, in Steamboat Springs, Colo., shattering the boy's right...
What the budget deal represents is the clearest evidence so far of the rules of engagement between the new President and the Democratic Congress. Unlike Ronald Reagan, who blamed Capitol Hill for everything but the depletion of the ozone layer, Bush by temperament and political calculation seems determined to avoid unnecessary and melodramatic showdowns. So far, the President has behaved like a loyal member of the congressional alumni association who wants to prove that he is still one of the guys despite his fancy new digs on Pennsylvania Avenue. Bush intends to block ambitious Democratic schemes to mandate that business...