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...fillings removed--a process that is not only expensive but also often painful. The theory is that the fillings slowly poison the body by leaching out mercury that was mixed with silver to make the amalgam. Hundreds of dentists in the U.S. offer amalgam extractions as a profitable adjunct to their regular practice. In their view, the old fillings, which can be up to 50% mercury, are responsible for a host of modern ills including Alzheimer's disease, chronic fatigue and multiple sclerosis...
...prudent George Bush, who ordered U.S. troops to Somalia in the first place, was rethinking the old guidelines just before he left office. He suggested that "military force might be the best way to protect an interest that qualifies as important but less than vital." Force is a key adjunct to diplomacy, he argued, and "real leadership requires a willingness to use military force." Richard Haas, the former White House aide who wrote that speech, explains, "It was an attempt to come up with a slightly more flexible rationale for using force. It was also a defense of what...
...will be to maintain the allegiance of crucial talent like Ray Ozzie, the creator of Notes, who spent 10 years developing the software. "The downside of IBM is that it takes 42 people to make a decision," says Mitchell Kapor, the founder of Lotus, who now is an adjunct professor at M.I.T. "If that happens, Ray will throw up his hands." Gerstner tries to sound reassuring. "We certainly don't want to suck Lotus into the giant company that IBM is and destroy what makes it so successful and unique," he says. "They can run their daily lives...
Though academia was a more distant fourth-ranked field for men (12.6 percent), it ranked first for women (16.1 percent). While academic careers were the most popular among Radcliffe respondents, proportionally fewer Radcliffe than Harvard graduates were fully tenured professor. (A substantial portion are either adjunct or assistant professors...
With the help of Adjunct Professor of Business Administration Ronald W. Moore, Fenster developed his course in corporate restructuring in 1991, after colleagues who learned he had cancer endowed the Fenster professorship at the Business School...