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...Mexico in 1937. "You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake it into you. The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro-and the micro, where everything is sidewise under you and over you, and the clocks stopped long...
...matters. Some Tory backbenchers remember vividly the verbal exchange that marked Thatcher as a fighting lady to be reckoned with. Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, who is renowned for his brutal wit, had just dubbed her "La Pasionaria of Privilege." Thatcher ignored the pointed insult. "Some Chancellors are micro-economic," she answered coldly. "Some Chancellors are fiscal. This one is plain cheap." And she went on to document unerringly Healey's failure to deal with the facts...
...seems to own her own time ma chine. She also likes to play with micro-armor: tiny scale models of tanks. A few hours after her fatal accident in Gamma World, she was marshaling miniature armies of dwarfs and ores in a battle based on J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy classic, The Lord of the Rings. This was not a good weekend for Kim; her side, the dwarfs, was annihilated...
Other critics in the academic community and elsewhere fear exploitation of recombinant DNA research for profit. George S. Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus, mentioned a recent court ruling allowing researchers--whether affiliated with academic institutions or industry--to patent any new micro-organisms they develop. The pharmaceutical industry in particular is conducting intensive research, and would stand to gain from any products it develops as a basis for new antibiotics. Proponents of legislation to regulate recombinant DNA cite this possibility of industry profiteering as a rationale for nationwide legislation...
...chairman of the economics department at MIT, admitted yesterday that Harvard posed "MIT's most severe competition" in graduate economics instruction. "I doubt," he said, "that our curriculum is very different from Harvard's on paper." He added that most graduate economics schools boast similar programs of econometrics, micro- and macro-economics and economic history...