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...primary unwritten law of selecting a vice-presidential candidate is to balance the ticket. A secondary law often has been to delay the announcement so as to inject suspense into an otherwise bland convention. Bill Clinton shattered both precepts. Four days before the opening of the Democratic Convention he chose, of all potential running mates, the one closest to being a carbon copy of himself: Tennessee Senator Al Gore. Besides hailing from neighboring mid-South states and swimming in the centrist mainstream of the party, they are close enough in age (Clinton is 45, Gore 44) to form the first...
...reach them without doing irreparable damage to the patient's mind. That is why scientists were particularly excited by an ingenious experiment reported last week in Science magazine. The procedure is a form of gene therapy, but it turns conventional molecular engineering on its head. Rather than trying to inject good genes into cells that lack their beneficial properties, scientists have found a way to put bull's-eyes on tumor cells in order to shoot them dead...
Agran, who advocates a "New American Security" which he says would shift $150 billion from military spending to domestic concerns, believes he can inject a new perspective into the race with his mayoral background. Many others agree, including Desire...
...might conclude that precisely because we no longer know what makes "e pluribus" into "unum," we keep trying to inject a shared moral direction into our politics by applying outdated standards to public figures...
...only hours before a deadline to pay some of its creditors, Macy's almost found a savior in the person of billionaire Laurence Tisch, chairman of CBS and a member of the retailer's board. Through his family-controlled Loews Corp., Tisch offered to purchase the store chain and inject as much as $1 billion in new capital, buying out stockholders and bond owners at prices below the face value of their investments...