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...like Warren Beatty) will gather for four days of speechifying, seminar giving and satirical merrymaking, all on the indisputable assumption that the national press corps (and the public) will be so starved for spectacle and spontaneity that it will lavish attention on them--and their issues. CNN and C-SPAN have expressed interest in broadcasting some sessions live...
...plane had been having mishaps - little things. In October a piece of tail fell off in mid-flight. Last January, within a span of 24 hours, two British Airways Concordes had to make emergency landings for technical reasons - one engine failure, one mysterious false alarm. A few months ago, small cracks, said to be "microscopic" in size, were detected in all seven British Concordes, a British Airways spokeswoman said Monday; one of them was grounded because the cracks had gotten wider...
With the mapping of the human genome by J. Craig Venter and Francis Collins [SCIENCE, July 3], man will be able to lengthen his life-span by eradicating many of the existing causes of disease and death. And this breakthrough raises the ethical question of how to care for those nonproductive individuals who will eventually overwhelm Social Security and private retirement plans. ERLAND R. NIELSEN Pahrump...
...neatly edited month or two on a tropical island where no one is going to starve to death and Band-Aids are readily available if you get blisters. Let's face it: If we really liked reality programs (notice the absence of quotation marks, indicating genuine realism), C-Span would be the most popular network on television...
...soon came to be regarded as a medical oddity. Why? For many years, the diagnosis appeared to apply only to a very small group of patients under the age of 60. That soon changed, thanks in part to the widespread use of vaccines and antibiotics, which extended the life-span (from around 50 years in 1906 to 77 today). By the 1960s, the number of cases of so-called senile dementia had increased to the point that neurologists finally made the connection: in most cases, Alzheimer's disease and senile dementia were one and the same (see box, page...