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Wilson's aides say the Governor would not leap to join the ticket, although he makes little effort to conceal his plans to run for President in 1996. But Wilson might be tempted, since the exposure he would gain by serving as the President's standby could help him to achieve that goal...
...biologists (then at M.I.T.) David Baltimore and Thereza Imanishi-Kari claimed in a controversial 1986 article that the National Institutes of Health has now judged to be fraudulent, genes from one mouse mysteriously "imitating" those from another? Sure, and parallel lines might as well meet somewhere or apples leap back up onto trees...
...Windows software, which lets users juggle a variety of programs at once. While Windows is not as muscular as OS/2, Gates sees it as a bridge leading customers from DOS to OS/2 in a smooth transition. He thinks that is important: "Switching overnight to OS/2 is too great a leap," he says...
...while Republican leaders attribute the dearth of political campaigning to the popular perception that President Bush will prove virtually unbeatable in next year's election, Democrats around the state counter that there is still plenty of time for candidates to leap onto the national scene...
Will even that be enough to keep the death rate from taking a terrible leap? If not, it is hard to see what would do so. At week's end Washington counted $245 million contributed or pledged by 26 nations for relief since April 1, about $45 million from the U.S. But these sums are far from adequate. Moreover, not much of the money has yet reached the refugees in the form of food, water, tents, blankets, medicine and other supplies...