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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obscure corner of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), molecular biologist Norton Zinder strode to a 30-ft.-long oval conference table, sat down and rapped his gavel for order. A hush settled over the Human Genome Advisory Committee, an unlikely assemblage of computer experts, biologists, ethicists, industry scientists and engineers. "Today we begin," chairman Zinder declared. "We are initiating an unending study of human biology. Whatever it's going to be, it will be an adventure, a priceless endeavor. And when it's done, someone else will sit down and say, 'It's time to begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Gene Hunt | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

Franklin Roosevelt's martinis lifted the Oval Office many an evening. John Kennedy once showed up for work with a bandage on his head, claiming he cut it on a table while reaching for a dropped book. Research suggests that after ample champagne at a party, the President led a conga line into a wall fixture. The original photograph of Richard Nixon in the White House the night before he resigned caught two drained martini glasses at his elbow. The photo released to the public had the glasses airbrushed to remove the olives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Dead Soldiers Along the Potomac | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...Bush call the "vision thing." When he was chief of staff, Baker once said he didn't need to have a vision "because the guy down the hall ((Reagan)) has one. I'm more interested in the game than in philosophy." With the new guy in the Oval Office equally at sea, the matter may fall to Baker by default...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing for the Edge | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...thank them for their congratulatory notes. He gave Government employees two lectures about ethics -- something hardly anyone opposes -- implying that the store is now under stricter management. Bush also reversed Reagan's deaf-ear strategy for handling the press, inviting several reporters to dinner and asking others to the Oval Office on short notice for impromptu question-and-answer sessions. Just in case anyone missed the point about a fast start, the President even went jogging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting The Ground Running | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...farewells, his staff gave him a bridle, leather gloves and other equipment for his passion of horseback riding. Reagan quipped that when he reached his ranch, he would get the horse. Not to be outdone, two Reagan aides the next morning burst into the Oval Office dressed in a horse costume, the new gear in place. Reagan took one look, laughed heartily and, without missing a beat, turned to his mischievous chief of staff, Kenneth Duberstein, and hauled out the quintessential Reagan chestnut one more marvelous time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gipper Says Goodbye | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

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