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...contain hazardous experimentation, a team of researchers from the University of California was able to create insulin though recombinant DNA experimentation before the Harvard researchers could do so." The title of the article perhaps best sums up the attitude of these scientists who wish to remain unidentified: "DNA Results Irk Harvard Scientists...
President Ford chose a fitting occasion, a Manhattan dinner honoring Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, to provide an answer to one of Washington's most intriguing questions: How much power does he intend to give the former New York Governor? The answer, certain to further irk Ford's restive conservative critics, was in effect...
Filth City. The most docile dogs irk city dwellers by tripping strollers with long leashes, muddying lobbies, preempting elevators and perpetually sniffing people. Dogs can give humans tuberculosis, create allergies and cause assorted eye and intestinal infections. New York Post Columnist Pete Hamill, a relentless dog baiter, speaks for many in labeling his town "Filth City." As he puts it: "Nobody can tell me that all those piles left around the streets are good for us, no matter how many burglars are scared off when the dogs are home...
...much pain as the former. He feels constrained by the conformity required in a highly organized society, but he also feels lost and without moorings. And both feelings may be traced to the same cause: the disappearance of the natural human community and its replacement by formula controls that irk and give no sense of security...
...lighter stories about the business community, the Wall Street Journal gently chided those executives who take off for long weekends early Friday afternoon and leave instructions with secretaries to cover up for them. "The empty executive suites irk a lot of people," reported the paper. "An increasing number of businessmen are complaining that so many executives disappear on Friday afternoons that it is impossible to conduct any business...