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Epulopiscium is notable for sheer grotesqueness, of course, but it also upsets some long-held scientific assumptions. For one, biologists had believed that bacteria could never be very large because, unlike one-celled animals (such as amoebas), they don't have the internal machinery to spread nutrients through their bodies. Now it appears that some fossilized traces of large microorganisms, which researchers presumed to be from animals, may have come from bacteria instead. If that's true, scientists know less than they thought about the early history of life on earth...
...first mass release in the U.S. came at Christmas in 1990, when Ohio Governor Richard Celeste commuted the sentences of 27 battered women serving time for killing or assaulting male companions. His initiative was born of long-held convictions. As a legislator in the early '70s, he and his wife helped open a women's center in Cleveland and held hearings on domestic violence. When he became lieutenant governor in 1974 and moved to Columbus, he and his wife rented out their home in Cleveland as emergency shelter for battered women. He and the parole board reviewed 107 cases, looking...
...this desire and celebrity has remained mute, though his very appearance on the scene has spoken volumes. He is known as the Iceman, a Stone Age wanderer found one year ago remarkably preserved in the melting Similaun glacier high in the Alps. His discovery has already upset some long-held notions about the late Stone Age, chilled relations between Austria and Italy -- near whose border he was found -- and stimulated tourism and commerce. His age, established by radiocarbon dating as approximately 5,300 years, makes him by far the most ancient human being ever found virtually intact. (Some Egyptian mummies...
...main winner will be British Airways, now the world's biggest international carrier. The transaction fulfills its long-held desire to enter the American market, fly into more U.S. cities and pick up more American travelers for its transatlantic flights. Although foreign ownership of American airlines is limited to a 49% stake and 25% of voting stock, European and Asian carriers have rushed to make deals. KLM Royal Dutch bought 20% of Northwest in 1989, and in 1988 Pan Pacific Hoteliers Inc., a subsidiary of Japan Airlines, took a 20% position in Hawaiian Airlines...
Part retribution for Bush's deviations from Reaganism and part fulfillment of long-held fears about his moderate Republicanism, a revolt on the Right does indeed seem to be brewing. Many conservatives find commentator-turned-candidate Buchanan an eager and capable tool to use in drawing Bush back to the Right--and perhaps evicting him from office...