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Listeners around the country sent in contributions, and, although Jimmy died, the Jimmy Fund has lived on to help combat children's cancer...
...Pentagon policy: I believe any officer with combat experience considers it reasonable. I have worked with at least several homosexuals during my 40-odd years in banking. I am opposed to any discrimination in housing, employment or any other situation where close physical contact and strict discipline is not mandatory--as it is in positions of military command. My reason for saying that is that many people consider homosexuals to be abnormal, and unfortunately they are often the objects of scorn and abuse. As wrong as that is, it is just what we call human nature, and it will take...
...Fatigues are available in U.S. Army surplus stores, priced at $66 for a field jacket, $7 for a helmet. In August, U.S. Customs investigators arrested members of a secret Croatian-support group as they tried illegally to buy Stinger and Redeye antiaircraft missiles, night-vision goggles and other American combat goods. Seeking assault rifles, members of the group simply walked into Doug's Sport and Gun Shop in Calumet City, Ill., and ordered...
Duehay, who sponsored several environmental initiatives during his past term, said Cambridge should combat global warming by implementing programs that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1 to 1.5 percent each year...
...hope. Few scientists have scattered more rays than Dr. Steven Rosenberg, who has conducted a series of tantalizing though as yet inconclusive experiments at the National Cancer Institute. Rosenberg, a surgeon by training, has repeatedly tried to find new ways to rally the immune systems of cancer patients to combat their own disease. Last week he revealed his most radical effort to date: vaccinating injected patients with their own genetically altered tumor cells in what Rosenberg calls an attempt "to immunize the patient against his own cancer...