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When Vice President George Bush faced Chinese Vice Premier Wan Li across the net at Peking's International Club early one morning last week, the doubles match struck some as a paradigm of his six-day China visit. Teamed with Donald Gregg, his national security adviser, Bush took the first two sets, 6-3 and 6-4, then lost the third on a tie breaker, 6-7, after Wan changed partners...
MYOPIC MODERN HERO; Einstein on the beach without a paradigm; Steven Jay Gould gone off the deep end in search of the gecko and the albino gorilla--the name of this man is Mr. Palomar...
...sure what a decade of daily dioxin exposure has done or will do. Cancers and genetic damage are the most fearsome possibilities. But one obvious effect of the dioxin discovery has been the rearrangement of townspeople's memories: in retrospect, that purplish coating on the streets has become the paradigm for life in Times Beach. They remember, now, all the dead birds around town, and the stillborn kittens and puppies. Michael Reid, 19, remembers that he and other children loved to bicycle behind the dioxin truck, skidding and sliding in the thick oil slick. Joe's wife Penny Capstick remembers...
Boston is indeed a paradigm of American success. It's no coincidence that the city is a capital of both high technology and higher education. The region's many colleges and universities provide the technology and the technicians, the innovation and talent, to spur local industry beyond new horizons...
Cambridge's solution is no "average" scenario, no paradigm panacea to be adopted by other communities, and we should be wary of spotlighting the extreme population density argument. However, the fact that the DOD regulations, the only federal restrictions regarding "supertoxic" chemicals, could allow ADL to begin such research in a city with so many people per square mile clearly earmarks these inadequate regulations for national-level overhaul...