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...fact, the issue has spread statewide across Colorado after an initiative in Denver was successful. If the proposal carries in any of the three states, it would push the question of across-the-board legalization to the national forefront. However, many opponents maintain that marijuana is a gateway drug to harder substances that, if pot is legalized, would easily find its way into the hands of minors...
...obesity epidemic, Campos argues, amounts to a relatively small across-the-board weight gain pushing large numbers of people from the top of the ideal-weight category into overweight, and from the top of overweight into obese-subtle shifts, in other words, rather than alarming spikes. Support for that view can be found in creeping mean BMI readings for New Zealand men: they've gone from 25.5 in 1977 to 26.9 in 2003. The starting point for overweight used to be 27, until health authorities-following the W.H.O.'s lead-lowered it in the late 1990s...
Grade Inflation: 1. The supposed across-the-board raising of grades to undeserved levels by Harvard professors. 2. The sworn enemy of Prof. Harvey “C-” Mansfield...
...lower in female aspirin users, according to the study. In 2003, women accounted for around 61 percent of stroke deaths in the United States, according to the American Heart Association. But because of the side-effects associated with aspirin use, there will never be “an across-the-board recommendation,” Buring said. Women and men who take aspirin face an increased risk of internal bleeding, according to Buring. She also stressed the importance of weighing the adverse effects of aspirin against the potential benefits on an individual basis. “Aspirin is a drug...
Recently returned from another university speaking engagement in Mexico, Hayek has lately charmed college audiences and also found herself “rejuvenated.” As it turns out, Hayek is an across-the-board crowd pleaser, and students have in the past consistently and “cross-culturally” requested that Hayek be a guest to Harvard, according to Harvard Foundation Director Dr. S. Allen Counter...