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Although recent liberal defeats came on issues connected with homosexuality, the thread linking them was not sexual orientation but hubris. The left lost because it overreached, not because gays were doing the reaching. The Commander in Chief has discovered that the Congress, the people and the Pentagon also have a say in how the military is run. New York City has a large and politically potent gay subculture, which celebrates itself in a variety of venues, from Broadway plays to street theater. But the Irish Catholic establishment believed the gay right to party stopped short of crashing its party...
...common thread of these statements attests to a commitment to prevent the repetition of genocide. I recognize the right of those slaughtered in, as well as those who survived, the Holocaust, to be remembered and honored with our prayers and our tears. Yet one crucial question needs to be asked loudly. If remembrance is to be used for remembrance's sake only, rather than applying the lessons of history to contemporary political decision-making, what is the practical...
Radiologists can often solve the problem. Using their skill with X-ray imaging to guide them, they make a needle puncture into a vein in the groin and thread a very thin tube to the testes. The doctors then seal off the varicose veins with coils or chemicals that are sent through the tube. Johns Hopkins researchers reported that of 71 couples in which the man had had the procedure and his partner no infertility treatment, 60% of the women got pregnant...
CAPTION: UNRAVELING THE THREAD OF LIFE: 40 YEARS OF THE GENETIC REVOLUTION
...skiers. Over the past four years, Lewis has played the attentive host to dozens of fist-size spiders called golden orb weavers, housing them in Plexiglas condominiums, feeding them a daily diet of flies and, every now and then, flipping them on their backs to unravel yards of gossamer thread. The ambitious goal of all this effort: to unravel the secrets of spider silk, a family of materials stronger than steel, stretchier than nylon and tougher than Kevlar, the stuff used to make bulletproof vests...