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Floyd Patterson was there in Ali's body, as Muthammad played peekaboo with Holmes in the early going. Kenny Norton was there when Ali would hold his arms horizontally across his face and lean back to avoid Holmes's blows. Even Joe Frazier entered Ali when, for a very strange few minutes, Muhammad bent at the waist and bobbed and weaved as if he were a left-hook-throwing slugger...
...this round that Holmes began to throw an overhand right, the same type which Kenny Norton employed so effectively in this three fights against the former champ. Holmes hammered away repeatedly, and though he never stunned Ali, he continued to pile up points...
...fighters weighed in yesterday at ten in the morning. The champion checked in at a little over 211 pounds. That's a good, solid weight for Holmes, who fought at 209 when he won the title from Ken Norton and at 215 in his last defense against Scott Ledoux...
Holmes and Foreman have one other thing in common: just as Foreman wilted after seven rounds against Ali, Holmes has wilted in his longer battles. When Holmes won the title from Norton in 1978 he carried the opening eight rounds--and then collapsed to lose the remaining seven, barely eeking out a split decision. In his second fight against Shavers Holmes could hardly lift his arms after the 10th round, and won only because Shavers had even less energy left...
...more experiments with living animals get under way, the longstanding debate over genetic engineering's ethical implications and potential dangers is sure to intensify. Some scientists, like Rockefeller University's Norton Zinder, maintain that experimentation with humans is still a long way off and the concern is thus premature: "No one's going to diddle with human embryos in a time frame we can understand. Maybe in a thousand years...