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...Republicans claim every state west of the Mississippi River as either strong for or leaning toward Reagan. In the South, the Democrats scent possibilities in Texas and Florida, while the Republicans hope to crack Carter's supposed bastions in Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky and South Carolina...
Crippled by injuries but invigorated by the scent of an Ivy League championship, the undefeated Harvard football team will travel to New Hampshire today in preparation for tomorrow's showdown with Dartmouth, the pre-season favorite for the title...
...entrance to Freeman Field Industrial Park in the otherwise rustic small town of Seymour (pop. 13,100), about 70 miles southeast of Indianapolis. But in the park, there is a dry, mud-caked ditch, and the trees along its banks are dead. Inside a wire fence, an acrid scent brings tears to visitors' eyes. Some of the tidily stacked barrels bear household names: General Electric, Dow Chemical, Shell Oil, Monsanto. Paint sludges collect in sticky red and green pools on the porous ground, and such chemicals as arsenic, benzene, toluene, trichloroethylene and naphthalene ooze from rusty barrels. Near...
...injunction of St. Paul to the Corinthians to become "fools for Christ's sake" because God has "made foolish the wisdom of the world." They discern multilayered analogies between the clown and Christ: the clown's joy in living and mimed delight in simple things, like the scent of a flower, for instance, recall Jesus' command to "consider the lilies of the field, how they grow." The simplicity and childlike persistence of the clown can have a special meaning for Christians. "The clown refuses to accept the limits of the possible," explains Tim Kehl, a professional clown...
Last week the zoo took matters into its own hands. Her bleating and scent marking tipped off officials that the female Ling-Ling was in heat, an event that lasts a scant five days each spring. So a team of 13, including Head Veterinarian Mitchell Bush and Anesthesiologist Michael Abramowitz of the Washington, D.C., Children's Hospital, gathered around the lady. Ling-Ling was anesthetized, then inseminated with approximately 3.2 cc of semen that had been collected from Hsing-Hsing last year and frozen. (Fresh semen had been collected from Hsing-Hsing shortly before the insemination, but the sperm...