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...unfortunate that some teenage girls have taken to binging and purging and starving themselves to keep their weight in check. But health officials warn that drifting into obesity may be just as dangerous in the long run. The growing prevalence of both extremes suggests America is struggling with something akin to a national eating disorder. "The society is dysfunctional," says Robin Wes, founder of the Little Gym fitness centers for children. "We are eating out of whack...
...build a "contract" with moderate, middle class Democrats, the party's leading centrist group released their alternative to the GOP's congressional battle plan, vowing "hand-to-hand combat" to capture the legislative and political agenda. The Democratic Leadership Council's blueprint is obviously akin to the GOP "Contract with America," calling for deep budget cuts and a nearly complete reworking of federal housing and job training programs. But it also calls for health care reform and money for job training. And it cuts $75 billion in annual federal subsidies to agriculture, aerospace companies, the oil and gas industry...
...steps for administering TT to a patient seem akin to witchcraft. As described by nurse Quinn, a leading advocate of the technique, they include "centering" within one's head, assessing which areas of the energy field feel "out of balance" with the rest of the field, clearing and mobilizing the energy field, and finally, "directing" energy to facilitate healing. Quinn admits, though, that "we don't have empirical data to demonstrate the existence of a personal energy field. It's a working hypothesis. In science, you're allowed to do that...
Officials there, realizing they have an image problem akin to that of bars during Prohibition, are trying to beat the system just like Al Capone did: with bribes. At registration, they handed out 2,500 Radcliffe calendars, 5,000 guidebooks, and more than 4,000 t-shirts trumpeting "A Tradition of Remarkable Women." I passed on the t-shirts at registration, but Radcliffe, trying to curry favor with the campus press and perhaps knowing I haven't done any laundry yet, sent me one in the mail...
...befits what is still an infant medium, CU-SeeMe's performance is a little sluggish on most Net links -- the black-and-white images are akin to something you might see in a nickelodeon -- but capabilities are improving quickly. Viewing choices are limited by the fact that right now there are only a few dozen Net sites, most of them academic, with CU-SeeMe capability. Browsers might end up staring at an empty physics lab in Norway or a blank chalkboard in Israel. But already CU-SeeMe promises low-cost video conferencing for students, journalists and the dateless. Using...