Word: watsons
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Congress didn't look all that much better with its relentless grandstanding. Dutch Ruppersberger, a Democrat from Maryland, asked Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning, the opening witness and an ex--big league great, about a pitch he threw to Mickey Mantle. Representative Diane Watson, Democrat from California, dissed Arnold Schwarzenegger by flashing a 1987 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED cover featuring the Republican California Governor, an ex-steroid user, flexing under the headline HOT STUFF. Florida Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen praised Cuban American Canseco for hailing from Miami. "It was a terrible day for baseball," says former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent...
...even with such a heavy subject matter, Watson, known for his shrewd humor, tried to lighten the mood...
...consider, Watson half-joked, “Do MIT people have a higher risk...
While he did not advocate policies akin to the notorious societal eugenics of the World War II-era, Watson recommended a careful consideration by all potential parents before producing a child with a life-long genetic ailment...
Once it becomes commonplace for an individual to be genetically tested, Newton said, the personal decision-making that Watson advocates will eventually be supplanted by insurance and societal policies...