Laban’s Intercession Shapes Birth Order in County Tale
In a rustic county tale the elder firstborn rule is challenged. Laban intervenes to insist the younger not be favored before the firstborn, shaping family dynamics and trust among kin as hinted in a scriptural reference.
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Laban
Riddle of the Department of Energy exposes waste and fraud
A Republican publication asks how DOE with 40 000 legs eats money and labels the agency wasteful. It cites inspector general Mansfield on staffing, lost mail 126 000 pieces yearly, misused long distance calls, and mismanaged strategic petroleum reserves. The piece condemns bureaucratic inefficiency and argues for accountability.
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Department of Energy
Charles Duncan
Secretary of Energy
Washington Post
DOE
J.K. Mansfield
Congress
Mansfield
DOE Inspector General
Department
Washington Monument
St. Louis
Jimmy Carter
Texas
Louisiana
Give Credit To Non-Paying Enemies
CAPT. P H DAVIS JR USN Ret argues Americans ignore a Russian threat and the trade with the USSR finances Moscow. He cites Evans column on Export-Import Bank loans, inflation, and deficits funded by taxpayers, warning that Americans fund Soviet aggression including in Afghanistan.
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P.H. Davis JR
U.S. Navy
United States
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
M. Stanton Evans
Capitol
Evans
Russia
U.S
Stanton Evans
State Department
Federal Reserve
Afghanistan
Supreme Court Ends Living-Thing Patent Ban
The court refined patentable subject matter to separate nature’s products from human made inventions. Since 1972 scientists have sought patents on engineered bacteria able to digest crude oil. The ruling opens doors for many living organism patents, boosting research incentives and signaling a life sciences growth era.
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Washington
Patent Office
Supreme Court
Patenting Life Forms and the Fate of Human Nature
A reflective overview on gene splicing, patenting biology, and the risks and promises of DNA research. It argues that political regulation cannot stop science, citing Burger, Hiroshima parallels, and Shakespeare quotes to weigh liberty, possibility, and the uneasy future of humanity.
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Canute
Leonardo da Vinci
Hiroshima
John Courtney Murray
America
1980 Outlook For U S Farmers Grim And Uncertain
A 1980 farm sector forecast shows net income shrinking from 24 to 27 billion in 1980, with 10 to 11 billion expected. Higher production costs, rising debt, and off farm incomes shaping a broad economic squeeze. NATO faces internal strains as U S dominance in weapons clashes with European industry interests amid standardization efforts.
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CNF
U.S
Department of Agriculture
House of Representatives Appropriation Committee
Carter
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Iran
Afghanistan
United States
Capitol Hill
Peter Grant
Pentagon
Air Force
Navy
Watergate
Washington Post
Hotshot
Bob Woodward
Carl Bernstein
White House
H.R. Haldeman
Iron Man
G. Gordon Liddy
Will
John Sirica
Richard Nixon
John Dean
Robert Drinan
D-Mass
Congress
John Paul II
Capitol
Drinan
House
East Timor
Richard Holbroke
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