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...black Secret Service agents filed a race-discrimination suit against Denny's, claiming that they waited 45 minutes for breakfast at an Annapolis, Maryland, restaurant while their white colleagues were served in 10 minutes. The company called it a "service issue," but agreed to randomly check restaurants to ensure that they treat blacks fairly...
...three youngsters with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency treated with the new technique in the past two weeks. Doctors at the University of California at San Francisco performed an operation identical to Andrew's on Zachary Riggins, a three-day-old infant. And at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, an 11-year-old girl underwent a similar procedure. These three cases mark an important new phase in the rapidly expanding field of gene therapy. Earlier experiments involved inserting beneficial genes only to treat disease, not to cure...
...writing, co-sponsored by Mobil Corp., top honors belong to Kelly Sissom of Jones County Junior College in Ellisville, Mississippi. The first-prize winner in TIME cover design was Helen Evans of C.W. Baker High, Baldwinsville, New York, and in political cartooning, Gregory Shewchuk of Centennial High, Ellicott City, Maryland...
...spokesman for the U.S. military forces in Somalia to write the Senate Armed Services Committee with a request to testify in favor of the military ban on gays. When Scott learned of the pending appearance, he feared disaster. During the past year, while studying journalism at the University of Maryland, he had written several articles for a student publication, the Retriever, that, he says, "left no doubt that I was gay." Scott was afraid that gay activists "would 'out' me to the media" in a bid to discredit his father's testimony. Pre-emptively, Scott phoned his stepmother, Marine Major...
Scott Peck felt the first stirrings when he was just six years old. While his first-grade classmates in Odenton, Maryland, near Annapolis, wrestled with their ABC's, Scott grappled with a bewildering attraction to men. "I thought it was a phase I'd grow out of," he recalls. As the years passed, Scott fought his feelings. He dated girls and even slept with a woman in an attempt to disavow his inclination. Though he says it was "torture" trying to be a heterosexual, Scott fought on, at one point coming "dangerously close to getting married." Finally, Scott gave...