Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Seed, who did not return numerous phone calls to his home last weekend, gained notoriety earlier this year when he first announced that he would begin cloning experiments on humans. His abstract, submitted prior to the debate, looked favorably at the benefits of human cloning, calling it a "legitimate treatment of infertility" and an "expression of immortality...
...have not been so amenable. In 1990, Midge Martin, then a 65-year-old financial broker, sued the Longmeadow Country Club in Massachusetts for gender discrimination. The club excluded women from voting, prime tee times and the men's grill. In the months that followed, Martin reportedly received threatening phone calls, her crab-apple trees were uprooted from her lawn, and her Himalayan cat, Max, was poisoned. She later reached a settlement with the club, which included $45,000 for her legal fees...
...like a phone in the shape of a football or anything...
...things 'too much,'" she points out. "Eating quarts of ice cream at night, smoking three packs a day and sitting at the computer 10 hours at a time." I wait in vain for her to get to the too-much part. Later I screw up my courage and phone Donna Hoffman, a professor at Vanderbilt University who has conducted more studies of online usage than anyone else I know. "Color me baffled," she says. Hoffman believes the report is critically flawed. For starters, there was no control group--composed of, say, people outside Pittsburgh. Teenagers were the largest group...
...Judiciary Committee chair on "Face the Nation" Sunday, "my gosh, I think the President could get through this. But he's starting to lose." Hatch was just about the only person in Washington to penetrate the White House's weekend wall of silence, calling the President from his car phone and having what he described as "a very good exchange." So Clinton still has some contact with reality -- even if he isn't reading any newspapers right...