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...Harvard football team's game against Columbia last week was merely a diagnostic exercise. Today's showdown with Holy Cross marks the squad's first real test of the season...
Although Team Canada eventually qualified for the world-wide soccer showdown, Catliff suffered a severe injury to his right knee and could not compete for his country...
...controversy seems headed for a congressional showdown. California Democrat Douglas Bosco is pushing a House bill, with 39 co-sponsors, to void the FDA's approval of irradiation for pork, fruits and vegetables. The industry's supporters, however, are convinced that they will prevail. Says Physicist Welt: "It took 50 years for canned food to be accepted by your grandmother. It took frozen food 20 years to be accepted by your mother. It will take the housewives of today five years to accept irradiated food...
...pieced together from the various accounts, the latest showdown began taking shape on Wednesday, just 24 hours after the government had imposed new restrictions on political gatherings. Police went from house to house in Soweto, displaying the text of the new orders: no mass funerals, no outdoor ceremonies, no flags or slogans, no gatherings of more than 200 mourners. The police asked the families of the dead to sign a paper agreeing to these rules. The families refused. Police then went to the area's mortuaries and warned undertakers not to release any bodies for burial without official permission. When...
...author of "Nuclear Ethics," cautioned proponents of unilateral disarmament that "the premature abolition of nuclear weapons" would destabilize the world situation and could lead to an unregulated arms race or even a nuclear showdown...