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DIED. Ernie Shore, 89, who earned a small niche in baseball history by relieving Babe Ruth on the mound and pitching a virtually perfect game for the Boston Red Sox in 1917; in Winston-Salem, N.C. Ruth, then a pitcher, walked the first Washington batter, then was ejected for arguing with the umpire. After Shore came in, the base runner was caught stealing. Shore retired the next 26 batters and narrowly missed joining the eight pitchers who have thrown complete perfect games (facing 27 batters) since...
...battle from the Chemin des Dames to the Marne, from Belleau Wood to the Argonne. He sometimes wrings from familiar historic horrors memorable touches of contrary humanity. What was it like to listen to 8,500 guns, a sound that no human ear had ever heard before? For Winston Churchill, who visited France to see the war firsthand, the crescendo rose "exactly as a pianist runs his hands across the keyboard from treble to bass." For Private Frank Gray the thunder was "one roll, one roar, which never diminished and never increased, and which, indeed, imagination refused to conceive could...
Last spring's U.C.L.A. development has prompted similar questions, but the medical payoff from it may come a bit sooner. In that experiment, a team of scienlists led by Martin Cline and Winston Salser isolated genes that help produce an enzyme resistant to methotrexate, a drug used to treat cancer. The researchers added the genes to cell cultures of mouse bone marrow. The cells that picked up the foreign material, along with cells that had been incubated with genes that do not confer resistance, were then injected into mice whose own bone marrow had been destroyed...
...Imam Khomeini's follower, the parliament's child and Banisadr's brother." With that modest assessment of his qualifications, Mohammed Ali Raja'i last week accepted his election as Iran's Prime Minister. Raja'i, as Winston Churchill said about another man, has every reason to be modest. His meager government experience was limited to a ten-month stint as Minister of Education, a post in which he mainly presided over the closing of schools and universities in the name of "Islamization." President Abolhassan Banisadr, who is constitutionally responsible for nominating the Prime Minister...
...literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always--do not forget this, Winston--always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face...