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...butt of the joke an invitation to lecture in the U.S. At that point, in late 1881, Wilde had published one slim volume of poems to generally hostile reviews. No matter. New York City newspapers were so avid for a glimpse of this exotic flower that they hired a launch to ferry reporters out to Wilde's ship the evening before its docking. The press discovered plenty to report: a large (6 ft. 3 in.), broad-shouldered subject who parried their questions adroitly. His response that he had found the ocean voyage uninteresting eventually made its way into a headline...
...seventh week of embryonic growth, reported Chief Researcher David Page, the presence of the TDF gene appears to launch a process that leads to male sexual development; without it, the fetus will be female. The scientists, whose findings appear in the Dec. 24 issue of the journal Cell, caution that the evidence is still circumstantial, and the discovery will have no immediate application. Even so, says UCLA Geneticist Larry Shapiro, "they have begun to unravel one of the most complex mysteries of biology. We have a long way to go, but this is certainly a major step along...
Nonetheless, she was hesitant to launch a new campaign that would inevitably bare their private lives. "As much as she supported Dad, she was a bit apprehensive," says Daughter Andrea, who along with her brother John strongly lobbied their father to get back in. Yet Lee found herself touched by the thousands of letters that poured into Troublesome Gulch, Colo., urging her husband to run again. She watched with growing concern as he became more restless and depressed...
Centrist Republicans, however, regarded Nitze -- a Democrat since 1952 -- as an asset to bipartisan foreign policy. In 1969 Nixon personally asked Nitze to help launch the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. He played a key part in negotiating the SALT I treaty of 1972 and worked on SALT II until he resigned in 1974, accusing Nixon of making too many concessions for the sake of an agreement that might save his embattled presidency from the effects of the Watergate scandal...
...broadcasters ponder what to do, the Japanese are making HDTV available on an experimental basis. Next year they will begin special coverage of the Seoul Olympics, which can be viewed in Japan only on HDTV sets. In 1990 Japan will launch a communications satellite designed to carry HDTV signals, capable of transmitting them anywhere in the world. But experts predict that it could be five years or more before the slow-moving U.S. networks begin to offer HDTV broadcasts of their...