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...highest mountain in Africa is ____. Are elephant herds led by a male, a female or a breeding pair? The patterns on a giraffe's neck, like human fingerprints, are unique to each individual--true or false? These questions may be on the test Buddy Derrick, mayor of Lexington, Va., will give his grandsons John, 11, and Richard, 9, in preparation for going on WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY'S 13-day Family Adventure in Tanzania in August. Derrick insists that they study up for the trip because "half the joy of anything is anticipation--the other half is recalling...
...termites, as every homeowner knows, you're never quite sure you're entirely rid of them. Maybe the exterminator missed one, and the moment you close your eyes at night, it goes to work. For whatever reason, this thought crossed my mind last week as I drove to McLean, Va., to see what Pat Buchanan has been up to lately...
...only near-term solution to solving the worldwide organ shortage crisis," said a spokesman for PPL Therapeutics, the company behind the experiments. Although moral critics of the practice will blanch, the purpose of PPL's cloning experiments - the latest being conducted by the company's U.S. division, in Blacksburg, Va., with a federal government research grant - has been directed not at creating photocopy humans, but at developing biotech donor organs. The company announced it would begin clinical trials of porcine organ transplants in about four years, and its stock price (listed in London) rose by a record 19 percent...
Even when our own doctor tells us to get our colon checked, we don't always listen. A year and a half ago, Florence Seguin, 73, of Williamsburg, Va., shrugged off her physician's recommendation that she undergo a colonoscopy, a procedure in which a doctor inserts a flexible lighted tube into the colon to look for abnormal growths. A former nun and the adoptive mother of a 13-year-old boy, Seguin knew that one of her brothers had died of colon cancer, but it wasn't until she saw an article about Couric and Monahan that she stopped...
...makes me sick when my teachers treat me like an inferior who needs to be whipped into shape. We aren't living in the 1950s. Technology has put us far ahead. One day teenagers will disappear: we will be treated just like everyone else. JOEL HOLLAND, AGE 15 McLean, Va...