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...President, looking relieved that the painful moment had passed, applauded. He did not respond to Wiesel's plea not to lay a wreath at Bitburg. Moments before, Reagan had eloquently expressed his view that Americans have pledged more than "Never again"; they have also pledged "Never forget." Yet in indirect reference to the cemetery visit that has embroiled his presidency in its most emotional controversy, he also declared, "There is a spirit of reconciliation between the peoples of the Allied nations and the people of Germany and between the soldiers who fought each other on the battlefields of Europe. That...
...past three years, Western Europe has been the slowpoke of the world economy, lagging well behind the U.S. and Asia. Now Europe is achieving the kind of steady growth that demonstrates a welcome, if belated, capacity to respond to international competition. During the past twelve months, Europe has pushed ahead at close to an average 3% annual rate, while the U.S. has expanded at only 2%. The European upswing, moreover, is expected to last another twelve months or so, fueled by a backlog in export orders, healthy profits in many industries and a rise in consumer spending...
...somewhat subtler series of experiments, Baltimore and his colleagues are studying how genes for disease-fighting antibodies are coordinated to respond to thousands of different invading microbes. They tailor-made a mouse gene for producing antibodies and inserted it into the DNA of a normal mouse. Although the antibody gene was bequeathed to every cell of the transgenic mouse, it was turned on (expressed) only where antibody genes normally operate: in the white blood cells. Now the scientists can determine just what gives the gene a preference for one tissue type over another, a crucial step in determining how cells...
...core issue of the debate for people who oppose it is, What gives police the right to come onto their property? How do they know that if they're coming in for one thing, they won't try to find something else?" Turner maintains that police will merely respond to concerns brought to their attention by "responsible citizens," not snoop around in people's backyards...
...They got a couple of goals early, and it just snowballed,” Widbin said. “We didn’t really respond...