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Below the group of seven-and, of course, Vice President Walter Mondale, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, James Schlesinger and Budget Chief Bert Lance-is the "junior varsity." These are the dozen or so lesser aides who keep the White House whirring and the senior seven free to concentrate on their own functions...
...York City failed to slow the brisk sale of petunias, azaleas, tulips and hydrangeas; apartment dwellers were determined to bring touches of nature into their steel-and-concrete towers. Bird lovers crowded the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge as they sought to spot the first glossy ibis, dowitchers and lesser yellowlegs of the season. Members of the Appalachian Mountain Club went hunting for fiddlehead ferns...
Despite the sniping, the NIH group by last summer managed to turn Asilomar's directive into concrete rules. The guidelines continue the ban against the potentially most dangerous experiments. They also provide two principal lines of defense against lesser hypothetical risks. They establish four levels of physical containment; these range from standard laboratory precautions (dubbed "P-l") for experiments in the lowest-risk category-say, injecting harmless bacterial genes into E. coli-to ultrasecure laboratories ("P-4") for work with animal tumor viruses or primate cells. At present, two new P-4 facilities are almost ready...
...implement integration by busing, attempts to deal with those questions and criticisms. Lupo, an experienced Boston-bred journalist with a keen eye for detail, does not present the reader with a completely seminal work. He repeats and amplifies some of the observations Harvard's Robert Coles and the lesser-known teacher and author Kim Marshall have made about Boston's problems with busing. On balance the value of his book is that it backs up a series of telling arguments with intelligent reportage...
...held so that Radcliffe women, dues-paying members of RUS, could meet together to discuss women's issues with the legislators of the Radcliffe Union of Students. The fact that men were not invited to the dinner was much publicized in the first Crimson article and, albeit to a lesser degree, was mentioned in the second. However, neither article stressed the fact that women other than dues-paying undergraduates were not invited to the RUS women's dinner either. The dinner was to be held at Mather so that RUS members from the River Houses could more easily attend...