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...bottom line is that the manufacturers of homeopathic remedies are raking in hundreds of millions of dollars a year for products that may be no more effective than ordinary tap water and are probably not as pure. Yet proponents abound, particularly in Europe. A standard boast, in fact, is that the British royal family uses and believes in homeopathic products...
...Harvard's Boston location does distinguish it from other Ivy schools. With four excellent Division 1 programs a Beanpot's throw away, coming to Harvard does not diminish your NHL prospects as scouts abound. The Crimson currently has five alums in the pros, with Craig Adams '99 the latest to join their ranks. And five current players are drafted...
...gunman and secured a death sentence, but at a second, the same prosecutor argued that Hathorn was the gunman and secured another capital conviction. One of those theories has to be factually incorrect--yet Beathard was executed in 1995, and Hathorn remains on the Texas death row. Other cases abound where Texas prosecutors relied on discredited scientific "experts," concealed important evidence from the defense or paid jailhouse informants with reduced sentences in exchange for what turned out to be false testimony...
...Laden claims involvement in bombings against U.S. forces moving through Aden en route to Somalia; incidents such as the December 1998 Mudiyah kidnapping and killing of Western tourists, as well as other threats against Western citizens in 1998 and 1999, highlighted the threat environment. Iraqi and pro-Palestinian sympathizers abound in Yemen, while...
...think there is plenty of competition in the industry. Banks have been leaping over one another to grab more of what industry types call "wallet share"--a bigger chunk of the 80% of U.S. households that already carry plastic. So banks pick fights with other banks. Special, predatory offers abound--2.87 billion mailings in 1999 alone. "Competition doesn't get any better than this," says David Robertson, president of the Nilson Report, a credit-card-industry newsletter...