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...like to succeed him. According to aides and friends, one aspirant, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, has all but decided that the year 2000 is the wrong time for him. Observing the anti-impeachment sentiments expressed by the public in the last election, "Gephardt sees a great chance to obtain a Democratic majority in the next Congress and become the next House Speaker," says TIME senior writer Eric Pooley. "By contrast the odds of derailing Al Gore for the Democratic presidential nomination are lousy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gephardt's Year 2000 Problem | 1/15/1999 | See Source »

...nurses' aide training course at Bunker Hill Community College and is working nights. She is trying to obtain nighttime childcare through the DTA, and says she fears she will be forced to quit her job otherwise...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: After Welfare | 1/13/1999 | See Source »

...contrast, human cloning could, in theory, be used to obtain tissues needed to treat disorders such as Parkinson's disease and diabetes. These diseases are associated with cell types that do not repair or replace themselves, but suitable cells will one day be grown in culture. These uses cannot be justified now; nor are they likely to be in the near future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cloning: Dolly's False Legacy | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

Should employers be able to obtain access to employees' genetic records or DNA without permission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What People Think | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

Instead, the procrastinator should obtain a study carrel. This working space is popular during exam period, but usually there are a few empty stalls. If these are filled by fellow motivated procrastinators, she should not despair, and instead move into an unoccupied audio-visual room. No one distracting there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Town PAM WASSERSTEIN | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

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