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According to the SETI Web site (www.seti.org), the SETI Institute, located in Mountain View, California, "serves as a home for scientific research in the general field of Life in the Universe, with an emphasis in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. It is designed to answer the question: Are we alone in the Universe...
...Mountain-lion attacks [ENVIRONMENT, Aug. 24] seem to happen on and around the land where the animals once wandered. In the absence of their usual food, they prey on whatever they can get for their survival. What can be done to keep mountain lions from roaming on developed property? This is an interesting question when you consider whose property we're discussing. We have forced this on the big cats in the name of progress. Don't human beings kill in order to eat? Whether we are meat eaters or plant eaters, our food died in the name of sustenance...
...Mountain lions have nowhere else to go (we took care of that); they have nothing else to eat (we took care of that too). What options remain for them? Not surprisingly, other creatures don't think we are superior just because we can think and speak. Our superiority complex has led to destruction. JESSICA GLASS New York City...
Orrin Hatch can play with your head. As stiff as his white-collared shirts, a Rocky Mountain version of American Gothic, the Mormon Senator nonetheless makes nice with the Beltway Philistines. He flirts, brags endlessly about the Utah Jazz, fights Jesse Helms on his anti-aids legislation and is pals with Ted Kennedy. He writes love songs to his wife during long committee hearings and recorded an album of hymns, although he says he doesn't go crooning religious songs along the Potomac, as his good friend Ken Starr does. But that's one of the few ways in which...
Assume that Ken Starr had not amassed a mountain of conflicting testimony and circumstantial evidence, up to and including the famous dress. Assume that the Lewinsky question, like the Jones and Flowers and Kathleen Willey questions, remained an issue of he-said she-said. Does anyone doubt that Clinton would still today be sticking to his original story...