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...thought of anyone "salivating" to inflict political damage to the opposing side at the expense of a possibly qualified candidate should make every American nauseated. Republicans in the Senate and the right-wing special-interest groups who support them must resist the eminently political desire for payback and give what will hopefully be a qualified nominee a fighting chance...
...Democrats must also do their part. In their first nomination opportunity since Kennedy, the Democrats should resist the temptation to bend to the liberal interest groups who desire revenge via a left-wing choice. An overly qualified, centrist choice would indicate that Clinton does not intend to sink to the cynical level of his predecessors. Democrats in the Senate must not give in to pressure to apply an abortion litmus test to the nominee; they have to be ready to have legitimate disagreements with the nominee on matters of interpretation without throwing the judge out with the baby...
...than others. Heredity specialists have already identified a few genetic types that appear to increase a person's chance of developing AIDS after infection. Now they are trying to determine if long-term survivors hold any inherited molecular configurations in common that could be responsible for their ability to resist...
Stories about medical breakthroughs are tough to resist. A wonder cure. A life restored at the stroke of a scalpel. That kind of article is exciting to writers and captures readers' imagination. This, however, is another kind of medical tale -- one that is more faithful to the way most advances truly take place. It is a story about making many small improvements in patients' treatment and care. It is a story of how each new step builds on the one before until their combined power starts to prolong lives or at least improve the quality of life that remains...
...appealing option. The angels at the drive in and behind the bar speak louder than the apostrophes which end many of the stories, addressing the reader. Johnson's depictions of the druggie's singular experiences shine with a metallic grace; the visions, the "rushing on a run," resist the very messiness of the world in which they occur. This simultaneous representation of a crude reality and a burning vision is Johnson's final unresolved gift to the reader...