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Nonetheless, the list of Harvard places goes on and on. Besides the examples already listed, there's also the Harvard Book Store, the Harvard Shop, the Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, the Harvard Bakery, Harvard Ceramics and Harvard Pastry, just to mention...
...that it might be impossible to understand "A River Runs Through It" without a good understanding of fishing, especially the variety of fishing that relies on tricking the fish with a fly rather than simply baiting it. (For these Presbyterian fishermen, using bait is as bad as being a Methodist.) Fortunately, Redford frequently comes to the rescue, carefully explaining the complexities of fishing from on high...
...human embryos created by in vitro fertilization, doctors at London's Hammersmith Hospital, led by Alan Handyside and Robert Winston, perfected a technique for drawing cells into hair-thin pipettes one at a time. Then they teamed up with a group from Houston's Baylor College of Medicine and Methodist Hospital who had developed a procedure for rapidly spotting the cystic fibrosis defect in a single strand of DNA, using the gene- cloning technique called polymerase chain reaction. "It's like finding one typographical error in a book 180 times the size of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in about six hours...
Running parallel to this homing instinct is what friends describe as a growing spirituality over the past few years. Though the fact is not trumpeted -- even in the face of Republican family-values attacks -- Hillary, a Methodist who claims to have been "religiously committed since childhood," carries her favorite Scriptures (Proverbs, Psalms, Corinthians, Beatitudes) wherever she goes. She and Bill regularly pray with Chelsea at bedtime. "As I have grown older," says Hillary, "I have tried to synthesize my personal beliefs with the way I act in the world and to try to keep growing. It's a very important...
...ever was. Last September the biggest Lutheran body adopted a moderate pro-life policy. Two months ago, the Southern Baptist Convention filed its first joint Supreme Court brief alongside Catholics, urging abolition of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. The United Methodist Church almost pulled out of a pro-choice lobby it helped establish...