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Writing a baseball preview on March 7 is admittedly risky. There is still almost a month remaining before the commencement of the season, leaving plenty of time for injuries and other surprises that can affect a team's prognosis...
...local issues and personalities will largely sway their choices. But once the ballots are totted up, the results will be viewed as a key barometer of next year's legislative and presidential elections. And though the local contests have no direct bearing on national politics, their outcomes will inevitably affect the tug-of-war between Gaullist President Jacques Chirac and Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, likely rivals in the May 2002 presidential race...
...does a unit test affect my grade...
Marc Rich trades nearly every plant, mineral and fuel that can be taken from the earth and turned into profit. He does it on such a grand scale that his trades actually affect how much Americans pay for a slice of bread or a light bulb. "Some say he is the greatest trader since Moses made a deal to part the Red Sea," says biographer A. Craig Copetas, a Wall Street Journal reporter. When Clinton pardoned Rich last month, it was yet another deal--a business problem that took 18 years for Rich to solve...
...comes word that this condition, known as celiac disease, may affect the brain as well. In a study published in the journal Neurology, Dr. Marios Hadjivassiliou and his colleagues at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield, England, found that a wheat-free diet dramatically reduced the number of debilitating headaches suffered by some of their gluten-sensitive patients. MRI brain scans suggest that gluten somehow triggered an inflammatory response in the white matter of the cerebrum...