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Animal sex, however, is a more recent invention. Biologist Lynn Margulis of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst believes the evolutionary roots of egg and sperm cells can be traced back to a group of organisms known as protists that first appeared some 1.5 billion years ago. (Modern examples include protozoa, giant kelp and malaria parasites.) During periods of starvation, Margulis conjectures, one protist was driven to devour another. Sometimes this cannibalistic meal was incompletely digested, and the nuclei of prey and predator fused. By joining forces, the fused cells were better able to survive adversity, and because they survived...
George Bush appears to be bringing his Cabinet into the 1990s: he's adding women. The Cabinet has two: Lynn Martin (Labor) and Carla Hills (Trade). Last week Bush nominated a third, management consultant Barbara Franklin, 51, to take over the Commerce Department from Robert Mosbacher, who is leaving to run the President's re-election campaign...
Faced with the lowest approval ratings of his presidency, George Bush is courting the female vote for 1992. One sign: he is thinking of packing the Cabinet with women. Joining LYNN MARTIN (Labor) and CARLA HILLS (Trade) may be BARBARA FRANKLIN, a management consultant, slated for Commerce. WENDY GRAMM, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, might take over at Transportation. "It would be the first time a President has four women in his Cabinet," exults a Bush adviser. "It's our new campaign strategy...
William's story is set in a guest bedroom of a large plantation in the Mississippi Delta. The play centers on the faltering marriage of Brick (David Javerbaum) and Maggie (Cori Lynn Peterson) Pollit. Brick has turned to alcohol as an escape from Maggie, whom he can no longer love. Brick's disdain for Maggie has caused the couple to live without children--something unacceptable in the eyes of Big Daddy (Stanley Sneeringer) and Big Mama (Janine Poreba) Pollit...
Simply put, everybody wanted to know how one of the nation's leading schools in AIDS education and prevention was responding to the shocking news, said Lynn Schoff, manager of the city-run Teen Health Center located on school property...