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► Nation
Piecing it all together
Robert McKay, Thf. Battalion
Jennifer Webb, a student worker and a senior history major, repairs maps in the Evans Li
brary map room on the second floor Wednesday morning.
McDonald's slices
prices on Big Mac
CHICAGO (AP) — McDonald’s is
planning a real Big Mac attack, offer
ing the sandwich at its lowest price
ever — 55 cents.
The fast-food giant will be taking a
loss. The cost of the ingredients alone
— two all-beef patties, special sauce,
lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions and
a sesame seed bun — is about 40
cents. But McDonald’s hopes to make
it up by drawing in more customers
and requiring the Big Mac be sold with
a drink and fries.
The Big Mac, introduced in 1972,
normally sells for about $2.
McDonald’s will put the “Cam
paign 55” promotion to a vote
Thursday in a closed-circuit telecast
to its 2,700 franchises.
McDonald’s has “been showing de
clining same-store sales in the U.S. for
six quarters in a row and this is a move
to reverse that trend,” said Dick
Adams, who represents hundreds of
franchises.
Expert testifies
against cloning
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cloning hu
man beings would be “repugnant,"
but the technology does offer
promise for growing tissue that could
be used to treat serious diseases,
the director of the National Institutes
of Health says.
Testifying Wednesday before a
House subcommittee, Dr. Harold Var-
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► This day in history
Today is Thursday, Feb. 27, the 58th day of 1997.
There are 307 days left in the year.
In 1801, the District of Columbia was placed under
the jurisdiction of Congress.
In 1807, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born
in Portland, Maine.
In 1861, in Warsaw, Russian troops fired on a
crowd protesting Russian rule over Poland; five
marchers were killed.
' In 1922, the U.S. Sujoreme Court unanimously up
held the T9th Amendment to the Constitution when
guaranteed the right of women to vote.
In 1933, Germany’s parliament building, the Reich
stag, caught fire. The Nazis, blaming the Communists,
used the fire as a pretext for suspending civil liberties.
In 1939, the Supreme Court outlawed sit-down
strikes.
In 1960, the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated
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the Soviets, 3-2, at the Winter Games in Squaw Val
ley, Calif. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold
medal.)
In, 1972, President Nixon and Chinese Premier
Chou En-lai issued the Shanghai Communique at the
conclusion of Nixon’s historic visit to China.
In 1991, President Bush declared that “Kuwait is
liberated, Iraq’s army is defeated,” and announced the
allies would suspend combat operations at midnight.
► Today's birthdays
Actress Joanne Woodward is 67. Actress Elizabeth
Taylor is 65. Former Senator Malcolm Wallop, R-Wyo.,
is 64. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader is 63. Actress
Barbara Babcock is 6CL Actor Howard Hesseman is 57.
Actress Mary Frann is 54. Rock musician Paul
Humphreys (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) is 37.
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