Word: pennsylvania
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Janus and Kleinfelder, close friends but intense rivals on the squash courts, battled it out on the IAB's floors. While Kleinfelder, an experienced basketball player from Westchester State College in Pennsylvania, worked with her team, the scrappy Janus harrassed her with an aggressive, ball-hawking defense...
Another promising prospect was discovered by U.S. Agriculture Department scientists: a supersweet calorie-less substance (a thousand times sweeter than sugar) made from an extract of grapefruit rinds. At the University of Pennsylvania, researchers have isolated powerful protein sweeteners from tropical berries. Yet until such substances are tested, approved and come to market, Americans will have to accommodate to a new reality: that life may quite literally no longer be as sweet...
Topa was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Last week the Pennsylvania Supreme Court disagreed with Nash, arguing that "his certainty is not shared by all commentators and scientists in the field." Unlike fingerprints, the court noted, spectrograms may vary according to such things as the speaker's health or age. And like a lie detector test there is a risk that the jury will give too much weight to such testimony. Though top courts in two states admit voiceprints as evidence, the court decided that Pennsylvania would not join them until there was "general acceptance" of the precision...
...place clean of stories. A drama major at Virginia's Hollins College, she covered Virginia politics for the CBS Roanoke affiliate. ABC hired her in 1973 to anchor network radio newscasts and a year later dispatched her to the White House. Compton spends so much time at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that the Georgetown house she bought last year on her $55,000 earnings remains unpainted and unpapered. Her social life is similarly neglected. "There is no way I'd put up with any man who had a life-style like mine," she says, but allows that eventually...
...FIGHT AGAINST DEATH: ANTHONY G. AMSTERDAM, 41, of Stanford. Educated at Haverford and University of Pennsylvania Law. Clerked for Justice Felix Frankfurter. Married to a civil rights lawyer; three children (two from an earlier marriage...