Word: marvell
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...past 14 years, scientists in the U.S. could only marvel at such complex choreography. To learn any more about it, they would have had to conduct experiments on human embryos and aborted fetal tissue. But federal funding for any such research was forbidden by the pro-life Administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Last year President Clinton quietly called for an end to his predecessors' ban and asked the National Institutes of Health to develop rules to guide the research. And since February an expert NIH advisory panel has been debating the details of what is sure...
...indeed? The author's fizz of comic energy is as wild and scornful as Richard Condon's, back when Condon was young and frisky. And as was true with such daft Condon fables as Some Angry Angel, Dooling's story has no detectable point or purpose, except to marvel at the rich variety of human wickedness...
...author has changed, so has California. It is now a place where visitors marvel and say, "Wow, this must have been great." Breaking camp at Yosemite one morning at 6:30, after a night of headlights, radios and tape decks, Barich counts incoming cars: four a minute. "Almost 3.5 million tourists visited Yosemite every year, and I saw what a job it must be just to keep the rest rooms clean." Where to now, Ansel Adams...
When all is said and done, Harvard has done relatively well with the Class of '94, in terms of bringing about diversity. As I look out onto Tercentenary Theater this afternoon I marvel at the stripes and colors that we, the students of Harvard College, represent. Not even the prismatic hues of the academic robes can quite capture our endless diversity. While our ratios might be statistically skewed, we could never be confused with the graduating class of Harvard-Radcliffe a generation...
...There's a chip on his shoulder these days that, when he digs deeper than Bobbitt-Harding-Menendez for material, puts an unpleasant defensive spin on the observations. We laugh, sure, and marvel...