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...justification for this new idea came from a series of startling geological studies in the late 1970s by two University of Chicago geologists. David Raup and John Sepkowski. By carefully analyzing fossil records of the evolution of marine animals, the two concluded that large-scale extinctions occur about every 26 million years...
Questions about the role of religion in politics also occur on a level more abstract than the to-and-fro over particular legislative issues. By allying himself with the Religious Right and its tendency toward a self-righteous zeal, President Reagan can seem, at times, to be appropriating godliness itself for his party and Administration. Last week Columnist Mike Royko joked bitterly about the tendency. "They've managed to convince a large segment of the population that God is a conservative Republican...
According to Quigley, the chances for pregnancy are best when the eggs are retrieved during the three-to four-hour period when they are fully mature. At Bourn Hall, women remain on the premises, waiting for that moment to occur. Each morning, Steptoe, now 71 and walking with a cane, arrives on the ward to check their charts. The husband of one patient describes the scene: "Looking at a woman like an astonished owl, he'll say, 'Your estrogen is rising nicely.' The diffidence is his means of defense against desperate women. They think he can get them pregnant just...
...Ferraro campaign staff points out that Zaccaro could have simply bought his wife's property directly without going through Lerman, but "because of the recent FEC experience it did not occur to him." Again, for such a transaction to be legal it would have to be an arm's-length, market-value deal. In view of Ferraro's whopping profit after just five months, it is not entirely certain that the sale and repurchase met this standard...
...smaller ones. Said EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus: "The evidence is overwhelming that lead is a threat to human health. This action will greatly reduce the threat, especially for pregnant women and young children." He added, moreover, that "recent evidence shows that adverse health effects from lead exposure may occur at much lower levels than heretofore considered safe." Ruckelshaus estimated that the ruling would lower by nearly 50% the number of children with levels of lead in their blood that exceed U.S. health standards. He said the affected youngsters would be reduced from 97,000 at present...