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Likewise, when in May 1996, on CBS News, Joe Cook said of gay marriage (a term cynics of an earlier era might well have labeled an oxymoron), The [Roman Catholic] Church sets the standard which people adopt to, some listeners knew that adapt was meant.
Greater reductions earlier than expected have lowered risks to human health and provided benefits to the environment sooner.
The Sudan plant story is the off-lead at the WP and NYT . The USAT lead also covers the latest development in the 1988 Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland--discussed earlier in the summer as in the works by the NYT and nailed down in yesterday's LAT --that the U.S. and Britain have just decided to accept an offer once made by Moammar Gadhafi to have the two Libyan suspects in the case tried in the Netherlands under Scottish law.
The downregulation of SLAM gene expression observed here after allergen challenge, which induces a Th2 response, is consistent with this earlier observation.
Despite the front-page placement and Woodward's brand-name byline, the Post 's Oct.17 story added little to a report posted two days earlier by Time reporter Michael Weisskopf on his magazine's Web site.