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Perhaps so. But it was not too early for the world to recognize Poland's remarkable political performance for what it was: in the year of Communism's historic identity crisis -- a time of glasnost in the Soviet Union, brutal repression in China and political unease in the rest of...
Gorbachev's experiment in rambunctious parliamentary democracy adjourned, with moments of high drama to the very end. At the closing session of the Congress, Andrei Sakharov and Gorbachev squared off against each other. Sakharov called for removal of the constitutional provision giving the Communist Party the "leading role" in Soviet...
The claim is so dramatic and startling that some biologists, perhaps mindful of the recent flap over test-tube atomic fusion, have been wary of taking it at face value. But an experiment reported by researchers at the University of Rome and at that city's Institute of Biomedical Technology...
The experiment has been called a potential "cornerstone in biology." Maybe so, but it will hardly make genetic engineering a kitchen-table technology. Advocates of gene transplants have long pointed to the potential benefits of altered animals -- disease-resistant pigs, fast-growing cows and the like. Medical researchers are already...
Members of a group learn about sex from one another, experiment with drugs together and look to their friends for a sense of belonging and approval. Notes Alan Morris, chief of the adolescent unit of the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute in Chicago: "Some kids, especially younger adolescents, have an exquisite...