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...Coalition for Responsible Genetic Research, which includes the Cambridge-based Science for the People, a citizens group, will hold a news conference in Washington today calling for a world-wide moratorium on the controversial genetic research shortly before the NAS forum begins...
Many of the letters mixed facetiousness with common sense. One woman asked for a moratorium on watering cemeteries: "When the needs of the living are in danger, let the souls of the dead rest in peace a little dryer." Other writers suggested bans on selling and filling water beds, using Jacuzzi baths and sprinkling golfing greens and tennis courts. One advocated cutting back on water-guzzling yard plants like camellias and azaleas; cacti and other desert flora could be planted instead...
...newspaper; you'd want to work it out. It's the same thing here." But there is no hiding the fact that the Pistons are hardly the Waltons. General Manager Feldman acknowledged as much at the end of January, when he announced a moratorium on disharmony, adding that Brown would be offered a contract for next season and that no trades-requested or not-would be made. Feldman followed his ultimatum by inviting Porter and Brown to breakfast. On the menu: bagels, Nova Scotia salmon and soft soap. Bagel diplomacy seems to have worked, but the rest...
...really doesn't make much difference that the moratorium is over, at least to Harvard. Although MIT labs have been ready since late December, the Harvard labs will not be completed until early June...
...upheld the death-penalty laws in Texas, Georgia and Florida, and it is in one of those states that condemned man No. 2 is likely to die. Opponents of capital punishment have argued that the death of Gilmore would break a psychological barrier created by the years of moratorium. Most experts, however, believe Gilmore's fate is not likely to set off a large number of executions. The main reason: most of those now confined to death row are not so eager to die. Says Yale Law Professor Charles L. Black Jr.: "Gilmore would not allow the legal points...