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...meat meal," he said. "I've worked with tigers for seven years, and under no circumstances would I put myself under those conditions." People have called for the destruction of the animals that attacked Robin Silverman. Zoo Director William Conway disagrees. Says he: "We're not going to vilify normal, healthy tigers for doing what tigers...
...AIDS research in the past four years, it has been criticized in many quarters for moving much too slowly. "When President Reagan called Rock Hudson in Paris, it was the first contact he has made with AIDS," says Larry Kramer, a novelist and playwright whose latest dramatic work, The Normal Heart, depicts the politics of AIDS. Sloan-Kettering's Krim charges that Washington has treated AIDS like a "ghetto disease. They didn't think the public would be too concerned or caring...
NASA officials, with their normal tumble of superlatives, deemed the mission a "great success." Said the chief mission scientist, Eugene Urban: "Scientists will be busy for years working with these data." Yet a few gremlins still lurk. Three times in the past year, the launch procedures have resulted in near disaster. And though Discovery waits eagerly on deck, ready for a late August launch, NASA remains way behind schedule. --By Natalie Angier. Reported by Jerry Hannifin/Kennedy Space Center
...addition to enduring military training, parade drill and required athletics, cadets carry a heavier than normal college course load that is long on engineering and math. Sleep, not surprisingly, is regarded as a luxury. To stay awake in class, cadets who begin dozing off in their seats are permitted to stand up by their desks. After lunch, entire classes are sometimes on their feet by the final bell...
...This is just safety, and I wouldn't do it for drug dealing," she says. "I wouldn't do it for speeding. I wouldn't do it for a normal crime. It's a serious issue, but it is insane what is going on in the airports right now." Coulter's friends had told me that nothing angers her quite like standing in an airport security line. (She travels frequently to give speeches at $25,000 a pop--up to $50,000 if she must cross the Mississippi River.) Conveniently, her plan would let her glide through a metal detector...