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...bacon-and-egg breakfast with Regan, however, showed that there was less room for compromise than Rostenkowski had hoped. "What about a two-year program instead of three?" he asked. Replied Regan: "If I went to the President with that offer, I'd be fired." Rostenkowski was surprised by this hardening of the Administration's position. He pledged to work for a palatable compromise, but said, "I can't sell that 5-10-10," referring...
...first normal meal consisted of consommé and a boiled, mashed pear, and the next day he tackled a bowl of stracciatella, a hot chicken broth with egg drops. There were clear signs last week that Pope John Paul II was on his way to recovery-and, as usual with any job he tackled, doing it robustly. Doctors at Rome's Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic removed the 26 stitches they had inserted after a would-be assassin's bullet ripped through the Pope's abdomen on May 13. The Pontiff received visitors, made brief voyages to a nearby...
...behavior and man's beliefs about it. Ibis guano, the reader learns, enriches the ecology of the Everglades by increasing plankton growth; a loon can be imitated on the ocarina; geese occasionally become homosexual, pair-bonding for life even when heterosexual partners are present; an auk's egg is a marvel of engineering, shaped so that it will not roll from its cliff-edge nest...
...Miro, Edgar Bronfman, 51, the wavy-haired chairman of Seagram Co. Ltd., exudes a certain air of contentment. He should. Last year Bronfman sold the Texas Pacific Oil Co., which Seagram had bought in 1963 for $256 million, to the Sun Co., for $2.3 billion. Bronfman's nest egg has since grown to a stunning $3 billion through shrewd asset management, and he is now leisurely looking for a place to invest the money. Says he: "It's a little like matchmaking. There are a lot of willing brides, but the boy has still to make...
Others argue that human life does not start until a week or so after conception, when the fertilized egg has traveled through the Fallopian tube and implanted itself in the wall of the uterus. "We are able to discern [the embryo's] presence and activity beginning with implantation," wrote Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former chief of obstetrical services at New York City's St. Luke's Hospital, in his 1979 book Aborting America. "If this is not 'life,' what...