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CAPTION: Has the likelihood of war with Iraq increased during the past few weeks...
...difficult to rein in their excitement. It is among the latest in a chain of discoveries that have rapidly confirmed what for a long time scientists only suspected: mutations in specific genes are the underlying cause of cancer. As knowledge about these genes expands, so too does the likelihood researchers will devise new treatments that may one day target cancer cells as selectively as antibiotics attack bacteria. "Cancer cells," says gene mapper David Housman of M.I.T., "are too damn close to normal cells, and that's been the basic problem in attacking this disease. Finally, we are beginning to learn...
...presumably uses as a justification for this death sentence the role that Senator Helms has had (in their minds) in increasing the likelihood that homosexuals can die from AIDS. But in this, also, they are mistaken. The risk to the lives of homosexuals from AIDS arises not from Helms, but from the fact that they choose to engage in sodomy, which greatly increases their chance of getting AIDS through sexual contact. Punishing Helms by death would not bring their loved ones back, but it certainly would lead to the cessation of this radical organization's further expressing its reckless opinions...
...likelihood, experts, predict, thisvicious circle will continue until significantlygreater numbers of women win office...
...case of date rape, the policy states,"there would be a strong likelihood that theaggressor would be asked to leave the University...