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...THEORY OF EVERYTHING? WILL WE FIGURE OUT HOW LIFE BEGAN? WILL WE CLONE A DINOSAUR? WILL WE KEEP EVOLVING? WILL ANYONE EVER RUN A 3-MINUTE MILE? WILL WE CONTROL THE WEATHER? CAN WE SAVE CALIFORNIA? WILL WE EVER TRAVEL AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT? ...REACH ABSOLUTE ZERO? ...GET RID OF COCKROACHES? WILL THERE BE ANYTHING LEFT TO DISCOVER...
Even if we did manage--against all odds--to rid a city of roaches, they would still do just fine. What the species really has going for it is wanderlust--and a penchant for traveling with people. That is how cockroaches first colonized the world, and that's how they're spreading today, hitchhiking on trains, planes, automobiles--even up the trousers of unknowing tourists. In Taiwan, for example, where it would have been a curiosity only 30 years ago, the German cockroach is happily entrenched. "The last living thing on the planet," says entomologist Roger Gold of Texas...
...necessarily as the place to which they're planning to return. Their lives and careers are here. Also, they're able to see beyond Fidel, to look at how Cuba can be changed after he's gone. But many of the older generation can't see beyond getting rid of Fidel...
Smith proposes getting rid of SAC, the Finance Committee and the CLC. In its place, the council would have a Grants Committee to handle financial duties, an All-House Committee in charge of managing relations with House Committees, an Administrative Relations Committee to deal with administrators and student-Faculty committees and a Student Groups Committee to serve as a liaison to campus organizations...
...comes to campaign finance reform, putting forward a new system in which a $1.7 billion public-private endowment would provide every candidate with his or her total campaign funding. The plan, which was met with lukewarm support from the patron saint of campaign finance, John McCain, would get rid of the direct ties between private contributors, federal officeholders and the two political parties. "The views of the donor will have absolutely no influence on the views of the recipient," said Gore Monday of the proposal, which would combine the less-than-$1,000 from private citizens and the big, "soft...