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...scrap of a song hint at? First of all, it gave witness that a figure beloved by Jews and Christians has a Muslim constituency, suggesting a connection between Islam and the West that might surprise most Americans in this tense season. But second, it acknowledged that despite this apparent bond, there is still turmoil among the sons of Abraham...
...child care; and he wrote the law guaranteeing emergency room patients access to an interpreter. The mayor of Cambridge, on the other hand, plays a primarily ceremonial role, with real executive power residing in the city manager and the superintendent of schools. Credit for Cambridge’s AAA bond rating goes to City Manager Robert W. Healy, who has been in office since Galluccio was in high school. On education, Galluccio cannot claim sole credit for restructuring Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, which was approved before he became mayor, or for changing the assignment plan to elementary schools, which...
...partially hydrogenated oils were doubly beneficial: the companies got a cheap product with a long shelf life while giving customers the vegetable oils they demanded, albeit hydrogenated ones. For the eating public, however, the result was quite the opposite. That's because hydrogenated fats contain a kind of hydrogen bond called trans that is as bad as the hydrogen bond in saturated fats--maybe even worse, according to CNN dietitian Liz Weiss, an expert on family nutrition. While saturated fats raise ldl cholesterol, Weiss explains, "trans fats appear to both raise bad (LDL) cholesterol and lower the good (HDL) cholesterol...
Like other major insurers, St. Paul depended heavily on investment gains throughout the 1990s. To gain market share in what was then a profitable specialty, most insurers pushed down prices on medical-malpractice policies. The companies funneled premium proceeds into profitable stock and bond investments that continued to rise even as covered losses began to mount. The increase in jury awards has come just as the bear market and low interest rates have eroded the investment cushion...
...something you do just before you drop dead," plans to spend his last days writing and recording as many songs as possible. "I'm okay with it," Zevon says of the diagnosis, "but it'll be a drag if I don't make it till the new James Bond movie comes...