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...technicians). It has produced and is testing half a dozen recombinant DNA products, including insulin, human growth hormone and various types of human interferon. Swanson gives Boyer the highest grades: "For an academic, he's got an incredible sense of what's important from a business standpoint...
...That's right. I prize clean air and clean water as much as anyone else. And certainly from the standpoint of preserving beauty, I am an environmentalist...
From an ecumenical standpoint, the most provocative aspect of the matter was the National Conference of Bishops' statement that these converts could become Catholics while keeping "some elements" of the Anglican tradition. Just what that might mean has yet to be worked out. To some the phrase seemed to hint at their retaining the use of the 1928 Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Vatican sources told TIME, however, that the Book of Common Prayer could "scarcely be used in the Mass." But the concession might refer to such services as morning and evening prayer, which are not part...
...because I'm in Moscow and I do want to win it. But the race is over too quickly for me." Even so, the cocky, sometimes surly mile record holder gave himself a 50% chance of winning. What is worse, at least from Coe's standpoint, is that he has upped his self-determined odds to 90% at the longer distance, where he has won 43 straight races. Said Ovett: "The 1,500 is the one I'm really prepared for. It's the one I want. Steve Ovett is a miler...
...longtime No. 2 man and now president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, last week released a firmly critical 118-page report that could lead to a major overhaul of the Federal Aviation Administration, the Government's principal agency for policing the skies. Its chief conclusion: the FAA, from the standpoint of technical depth and competence, simply is not up to the job of certifying as airworthy new aircraft that will fly 400 people at nearly the speed of sound seven miles above the earth...