Word: mates
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...also the least understood sense. The human nose can distinguish an extraordinary bouquet of odors, some 10,000 in all, and other animals can better that. It has long been recognized that moths, for example, are exquisitely sensitive to certain pheromone molecules and can sniff out a potential mate half a mile away. But scientists could not begin to explain precisely how they...
...LAST SUNDAY'S Boston Globe, Martin F. Nolan even trotted out some nonsense suggesting that George Bush could inaugurate a second "era of good feelings (a la James Monroe in 1820) by naming Democratic Sen. Albert Gore Jr. '69 of Tennessee as his '92 running mate. Time Magazine ran a bizarre piece last week proposing that the Democrats nominate Bush with a Democratic running mate. The pundits are desperate for a story...
...good running mate for Gore would be Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, whose Congressional Medal of Honor and loss of a leg in Vietnam would preempt any perceptions of softness on national defense. His "down-home" Midwestern image will retain the Democrats' traditional strength in Minnesota and Michigan...
Most cynical of all was Atwater's constant harping on Willie Horton, a Black convict who raped a woman while on a furlough from prison. Referring to Dukakis, Atwater said he would "strip the bark off the little bastard" and "make Willie Horton his running mate...
...been spilled in the past few months over the question of the draft. Now that the war is over, all the pundits and prognosticators will probably return to the savings and loans crisis or the drug problem or the refusal of the pandas in the National Zoo to mate...