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...Someone was giving a dance to cheer up the brave boys who were going to save the country--which I did. And there I was, 3000 miles away from my home in California just like a sitting duck," McCurdy said...
...black soldiers came raging across the river into town and posted a notice: "If we do not receive justice and fair play, which we must have, some one will suffer-if not the guilty, the innocent. It has gone far enough. Justice or death." It was a moment of brave anger in the 19th century, but it passed; the white sheepman was acquitted so quickly the jurors scarcely had to leave their chairs...
...date, Carter has not seized the initiative, in the process underscoring all his familiar failings as a leader. Here are some things he might consider: Taking part in the presidential debates, as any responsible leader would; apologizing to Iran for past indiscretions, as any brave head of state would; sticking to his own party's platform, as any democratic leader would; implementing a foreign policy that defends human rights in practice as well as in theory; increasing aid to less developed countries; giving America's allies at least some confidence that he will stick by them; renewing his commitment...
Since scientists first began manipulating genes, they have been envisioning a brave new world in which diseases from Huntington's chorea to sickle-cell anemia to possibly diabetes could be cured simply by inserting the correct strip of DNA into the body's cells. So far, though, most of the genetic tinkering has been limited to transplanting genes into isolated cells in laboratory dishes or into bacteria...
...publication in 1970 of Human Sexual Inadequacy, by Dr. William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson, was one of those events that transform the clinical landscape. Afterward sex therapy seemed a brave new world, and Masters and Johnson were its gurus. Already known for their significant findings about the physiological processes involved in sex, the pair devoted the book to the therapies they had developed at their St. Louis clinic for such problems as frigidity, impotence and premature ejaculation. Over a period of 16 years, they reported, they treated 790 cases, mostly involving married couples; in each case they conducted...