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Quayle, in an emotional segment reminiscent ofthe story Democratic vice president candidate Sen.Albert A. Gore Jr. '69 told last month at theDemocratic convention, explained how his familylearned about the devastating efforts of diseasewhen his mother-in-low died of breast cancer. Hesaid he and his wife host an annual road race thatbenefits cancer research organizations...
...UCLA researchers reported this month that autopsies showed that the anterior commissure -- a bundle of nerves that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain -- appears to be about a third larger in homosexuals than in heterosexuals. Another study, published last year, revealed that a segment of the hypothalamus, which influences sexual activity, seems to be half as large in gay men as it is in straight men. A recent survey found that when one twin is gay, an identical sibling is three times as likely as a fraternal twin to be gay as well...
...council. Opposition on this front helps explain his unexpected defiance of federal integration orders in 1957. It was surprising that Arkansas, of all places, should be the first Southern state to take this stand. It had fewer blacks than most of its neighbors; and those were concentrated in one segment of the state, and they had been rapidly draining away since the collapse of cotton growing. (Black population shrank from 27% in 1920 to 16% in 1980.) But Faubus wanted to be seen standing up against outsiders. What bothered his state was not simply having to integrate schools but being...
...point is, foreign investors make no broad attempt to target one segment of the American economy. Like all investors, they seek to make money wherever they...
...voters of all stripes invest him with their hopes. So far, his supporters are willing to take the chance that a tough businessman like Perot can succeed where timorous politicians have failed. In any case, they figure, he can't do any worse. But there is a much larger segment of the electorate reluctant to take the plunge until they know far more about Perot...