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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lyndon Johnson once called him "an s.o.b. with elbows." Explains the recipient of that odd encomium, Texas-born Charlie Walker: "Down where we come from, that's a term of endearment." In fact, just about everybody in Washington likes the breezy, boisterous superlobbyist, who represents the nation's biggest corporations, including General Motors Corp., Gulf Oil Corp. and the country's five largest airlines. Even Walker's opponents openly admire him. Says liberal Lawyer Max Kampelman: "He's always on the wrong side, but he's good for his clients. He delivers...
...began, refused to accept a court-appointed attorney, and conducted his own defense. Paying heavily for his defiance, he was sentenced to the maximum under the law: ten years of hard labor in a concentration camp and five years of Siberian exile. Shcharansky had received 13 years, without a term of exile, on the graver charge of treason...
...Steptoe and Edwards, the Browns' baby, apparently normal and so near birth, was a long-sought goal: in scores of previous transfers of externally fertilized eggs, a successful, full-term pregnancy had never been achieved. To many other doctors, including rival researchers, the feat was a stunning achievement...
Equally important, the sperm must be primed for fertilization or, in the technical term, capacitated. This means that the chemical inhibitors preventing the sperm from penetrating the egg must be removed from the surface of the sperm. How this trick is accomplished in the body remains a puzzle; some scientists think that the woman's secretions do the job. But in the lab, experimenters usually are able to prime the sperm simply by gently bathing them in a salt solution. There is also the critical matter of timing: neither eggs nor sperm have unlimited lifetimes, nor does the uterus remain...
...roofless, living under canvas for long periods of remodeling. Too much attention to the house's gimmicks can distract one from the home, which is perhaps Jefferson's most truly - original work, notion of equal opportunity but an exact uniformity in men's moral sense, a term that itself possessed exact meaning. The author argues that Jefferson included blacks in this equality of moral sense and therefore that he believed in racial equality. Neither Wills' nor Jefferson's theory would have been very persuasive in the Monticello slave quarters...