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...CONTRITION] [Strong stench] The elder Rigas hasn't gone public but reportedly wept in front of creditors after agreeing to relinquish control of his company...
...weapon. Ever a patriot, he had no political doubts or moral qualms about the weapon he would help to design. Those would come later, as he calculated the number of deaths and genetic mutations that could be expected over generations. Sakharov pleaded with Khrushchev to discontinue bomb testing, and wept in "unbearable bitterness, shame and humiliation" when his urgings to the leaders of the country he had helped to make a superpower were rebuffed. By the 1960s, Sakharov was both an oft-decorated Hero of the Soviet Union and an increasingly astute figure politically, moving "toward purer science and toward...
...experience, but rather a lack of motivation; I have never had the desire to deliver an impressive, Oscar-worthy farewell. At the end of my first year of summer camp, for example, I was the only dry-eyed third grader among throngs of bleary-eyed Jewesses. While everyone else wept through the choir’s rendition of “End of the Road,” I sat through my middle school graduation wondering why everyone was so upset about moving across the street from the public middle school to the public high school. I have been...
...whole world watched the children come out. The lucky ones sobbed and bled and called brokenly for the parents they had left only minutes before. Most of their friends remained buried inside. The rescuers wept as they cradled them, limp and weightless; fire fighters could not bear to look down at the children in their arms. "Find out who did this," one told Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating. "All that I have found are a baby's finger and an American flag." That may turn out to be a poignant, gruesome icon. How easy it was to assume that the attack...
...wept when I read the story of cc, the cloned kitty cat [SCIENCE, Feb. 25]. As the owner of two dearly loved cats--and having gone through the anguish of losing one--I dread the coming time when I must say goodbye. But the idea of taking DNA from one of them and thinking that scientists could give me back what I had lost is abhorrent. How many people will have the misguided but understandable hope that they can somehow cheat death? Both of my cats are shelter animals, and when they were kittens, they were...