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Only a handful of Congressmen have come down to the Mall campsite this week to visit or talk with the veterans. More than half of Congress has been conveniently absent when soldiers and veterans combed through their offices trying to offer personal accounts of war crimes...
...reproduction of genetic carbon copies, raises similar questions. Who shall be cloned, and why? Great scientists? Composers? Statesmen? When Geneticist Hermann J. Muller first broached the idea of sperm banks in Out of the Night (1935), he suggested Lenin as a sperm donor. In later editions, Lenin was conspicuously absent, replaced on Muller's list by Leonardo da Vinci, Descartes, Pasteur, Lincoln and Einstein. Society could well be as fickle?or worse?about cloning. It might create a caste of subservient workers, as in 1984, or a breed of super-warriors out of a "genetics race" between...
...kids, it's Howdy Doody time. Your old television pal has been dusted off for two shows Sunday night in Sanders Theatre along with Buffalo Bob. But, alas, Clarabelle will be absent...
...short fly ball to centerfield, but McGugan and Ignacio were off and running. When the ball dropped for a single. Nickens barely beat the tag of the catcher at home. While the catcher contemplated the close play, McGugan followed Nickens across the plate, right in front of the absent-minded catcher, and Ignacio moved to third...
Heading into the showdown Senate vote on the SST, proponents clung to a single hope, wispy as a contrail, of keeping the aircraft from crashing. Their head count showed 49 Senators against the plane, 47 for it, two absent and two wavering: Maine's Margaret Chase Smith and Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper. If Richard Nixon could land those two Republicans, the SST might yet take off. Vice President Spiro Agnew stood ready to cast a tie-breaking vote to continue the aircraft's funding...