Word: authorly
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...required colleges and universities to expand women's athletic scholarships to reflect more closely the number of women athletes. The number of full scholarships grew from 0 (yes, zero) in 1972 to nearly 20,000 in 1997. According to Charles Yesalis, a professor of sports science and senior author of the Penn State report, many young women view steroid use as a straightforward investment in their future. "Most of the time, after you stop taking steroids, you won't go back to ground zero," he explains. "If you keep working out, you could hang on to 80% of your gains...
...Poole has found an ally in Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), who's introduced legislation to rescind the Transportation Department plan. Paul blames Congress for passing the law in the first place, then trying to shift the blame to the Transportation Department. "It has been said even by the author of the immigration bill that the intent was not to have a national ID card -- but if members would read the regulations now being written by the Department of Transportation, it can be seen as nothing else," Paul said...
...most complete published portraits of reclusive author J.D. Salinger, an ex-lover reveals that he locked his manuscripts in a safe, obsessed about food (and vomiting), strongly believed writers should not become famous, and loved TV sitcoms -- especially those involving Mayberry and the Mertzes. Author Joyce Maynard had a nine-month affair with Salinger 26 years ago, when he was 53 and she was 18. In her book "At Home in the World," to be published by St. Martin's Press, she provides a look at the reclusive author of the iconic 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye," about...
...seen the change in every segment of society: blacks, non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics," says Marian Willinger, director of SIDS research at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and a co-author of the JAMA study. Much of the credit goes to a public-health campaign begun in 1994 under the slogan Back to Sleep. But not everyone has got the message. Those who are still more likely to place their infants on their stomachs include mothers ages 20 to 29, African Americans in the inner city and families who live in Middle Atlantic or Southern states...
HARCOURT BRACE would seem to have a major p.r. headache on its hands. The co-author of one of its lead fall titles, Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery, is PATRICIA SMITH, the Boston Globe columnist who was asked to resign in June after she was found to have fabricated four columns. Harcourt executive editor Jane Isay says the firm still plans to publish the book, which was co-authored with novelist Charles Johnson and is the companion to a PBS series. "She is a wonderful writer. Her prose is riveting," says Isay, who nonetheless concedes that Harcourt...