Word: arens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Suffolk Downs horse track a little after 1 p.m. on President's Day, and soon I'm inside the grandstand. Taking a cursory stroll down the length of the large room, the place has the feel of an oversized, smoke-filled branch of the DMV. Except that people aren't filling out vehicle registration applications or pouring over license renewal instructions; what they're doing, mostly, is studying the racing form. I pick up a copy and look it over, and it isn't long before I'm ready to, as they say, make a wager. In fact...
...Norman Blank, director of admissions at the Stanford University School of Medicine, says medical schools aren't looking only at whether students have devoted time to research or volunteer hospital work...
...really aren't sure what to do," says Larry Lieberman, a savvy Web user who happens to be the guy at Comedy Central charged with handling this situation. "We do want to protect our property, but we don't want to alienate our fans." Lieberman understands why South Park is ripe for the stealing: its surprise success caught Comedy Central in short supply. Fewer than a dozen episodes have been produced, and they are getting heavily recycled. "With a new episode every week, the itch gets scratched on television," says Lieberman. "But we can't create episodes fast enough...
SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EARS Parents, snuff it out already! Children under age three who breathe secondhand smoke at home are twice as likely to get persistent middle-ear infections as kids who aren't exposed...
...possibility, but that?s just window dressing. The secretary general hinted at the real deal when he said the document mentions sanctions -- and looks down the road toward lifting them. That?s one thing, at least, that Washington won?t like the look of. Those troops in the Gulf aren't likely to come home any time soon...