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...1970s he founded and led the Peoples Bicentennial Commission in efforts to finance "revolutionary alternatives" to the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, which he considered to be too commercialized. By 1977 Rifkin had become embroiled in the growing controversy over the new recombinant-DNA technology and was ready to hit full stride. In his book Who Should Play God, published that year, he naively expressed concern that in a "handful of years" scientists would be able to create "new plants, new animals, and new forms of human and post- human beings." The same year, he led a group of protesters who disrupted...
...other hand, hit its stride quickly. In the bottom of the first, the Engineers mounted a basesloaded threat and sent catcher Julie Brown to the plate with two outs...
Rubin--who won 11 games last year--hit her stride in the fourth inning, and faced just 10 batters over the final four frames. In fact, the senior co-captain--who did not yield a single walk--threw a mere 64 pitches on the afternoon...
...workshop ended with a fizzle, however, as the videotape when finally replayed, came up only static. McGillis took this in stride, asking facetiously whether the participants would like to sing songs...
...showing at the tournament marks another unexpectedly strong stride in his season's performance. While Wattles has wrestled on varsity at various points over the past four years, this season is the first in which he has dominated a majority of his opponents...