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...seconds, though in a few of the 2,500 known species male and female may remain locked together for more than an hour. They show every sign of ecstasy, but do they feel it? Mosquito Unit head Barnard looks pained. This is not the sort of question sober scientists are supposed to concern themselves with, and besides, there's nothing in the literature about it. "Well," he finally admits with a sigh, "they do have a central nervous system...
Other times, though, he is darkly sober as hetouches the wooden mouse on his desk and recallswitnessing the cervical dislocation method...
...high office, Clinton is still loath to confess the change. He continues to deny the obvious; his advocacy of a middle-class tax-rate cut was a sop to New Hampshire's strapped primary voters, and his scaling back of that promise today merely confirms a new and more sober political and economic stance for the fall effort...
...LIFE AND LEGEND OF JACKIE GLEASON (Doubleday; $22.50), Time's theater critic, William A. Henry III, sorts amiably through the maze of lies the funnyman wove around his tangled life, including one woozy story about two newlyweds and Gleason, all drunk, and a goat that may have been sober...
...panel discussion was not entirely devoted to sober talk about science and computers, however. There was also sober talk from Rudenstine about the planning process, from Knowles about his budget and from Wilson about plans to get Radcliffe more involved in public policy areas...