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This approach is unlikely to divert Dole from the drug issue. But it is most uncertain whether that will really give him much traction. "Cataclysmic" is how a Dole adviser describes the effect of a government survey purporting to show that teenage drug use doubled from 1992 to 1995. But polls of voters taken even after that widely publicized finding still rank drugs roughly fifth among the issues that most concern the electorate (the economy is No. 1). One reason may be that people do not see among their own children and the children's classmates quite as great...
...most extraordinary offshoots of in vitro research is a technique, offered to people carrying severe genetic diseases, that can ensure that their children will not inherit their defective genes. Couples in this situation are not technically infertile, but their options have been limited to an uncertain pregnancy or, if testing shows the presence of a defective gene, an abortion. Some people, opposed to abortion entirely, or unwilling to go through it again after one or more experiences, have decided never to have children...
...Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, where he openly advertised his admiration for Martin Luther King and led civil rights teach-ins. He questioned how much some of the students were learning, though, when one counterdemonstrator scrawled a note on his door, GO BACK TO MOSCOW, YOU BIG RADIAL! [sic]. Uncertain about whether he wanted to continue teaching, Bennett in 1969 enrolled in Harvard Law School, meanwhile working as a dorm proctor and tutor. John Carnutte, now an immunologist in California, recalls arriving at Harvard from Dixon, Illinois, accompanied by his mother. "There were marijuana clouds over Harvard Square and all these...
...secretive relationship with Clinton, which White House correspondent Eric Pooley had been working on for two months. Morris became worried that he would appear on the cover along with Clinton, something that neither he nor the White House wanted. He called me late one night to say, in no uncertain language, that this would upset him, and the President as well. I told him I understood the concern but that it was up to us to choose our cover image...
...despite such distractions, New Adventures in Hi-Fi doesn't sound like the work of a band in turmoil, performing with one eye on the charts because it is uncertain about its future. The secret to R.E.M.'s success over the years has always been its ability to remain focused on the music, regardless of outside pressures. Good bands hit and fade. Great bands, like R.E.M., endure...