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...outrage spread, Rollins recanted, issuing a statement that "my remarks left the impression of something that was not true and did not occur." Voters may soon learn which version of Rollins' story is closer to the truth: Whitman promised to release her campaign finance records over the weekend, ahead of the deadline imposed by state law for both parties to disclose how they spent the $5.9 million each is allotted for the campaign. Rollins, who had been distrusted by many Republicans since he defected to Ross Perot during the 1992 presidential campaign, may find himself shunned by future candidates. Says...
While the public screams about the immorality of cloning research, they forget that for cloning to occur, someone must want to be cloned. Time's survey asked whether those polled would consider cloning an embryo they had conceived; 90% said no. That, more than any law that could be put on the books, would prevent the practice from becoming common. Rather than asking, as Time and Newsweek did, "What if this technology allowed someone to give birth to her own twin?", we should ask, "Would anyone actually want to do such a thing...
They also planned to send a detail of officers to the Yale Bowl last night "so no criminal mischief will occur," he said...
...much regret that in having to deal with the imbalance in the museum's financial condition, some changes in structure will have to occur," said the dean, Jeremy R. Knowles, in an interview yesterday...
...regard to U.S.-Mexican relations, economists, businessmen and unionists can and do argue endlessly over a long list of topics. Will an accelerated movement of American factories to Mexico to take advantage of lower wage rates occur at all, or will it be discouraged by such factors as higher U.S. productivity and poor Mexican transportation facilities? If there is such a movement, will it be offset by higher exports to Mexico of products like computers on which high Mexican tariffs will be eliminated? Will American plants in fact gain an incentive to stay home, because Mexico will have to repeal...