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...global warming, a president who has previously been warned by Republican insiders to bone up on policy issues when dealing with wayward senators will face an even tougher task. Having come into power believing this whole global warming thing was a left-wing conspiracy hatched while his family was out of power, Bush in April flatly rejected the Kyoto treaty that the international community had spent the best part of a decade negotiating. Last week, a scientific panel he'd commissioned gave the president some unwelcome findings: Global warming is, indeed, caused by human activity, and that needs...
...After all, a commitment to improving undergraduate education is usually popular with most alumni (who view the College as the darling child of the University), Faculty (who can regard the president more like a fellow educator than a distant administrator) and students (who are happy anytime someone throws a bone their...
...PRICE OF FAITH? A small study of Orthodox Jewish teens suggests that more than half have significantly low bone density. Reason? The Orthodox encourage scholarly over physical activity--and favor modest clothing, which blocks sunlight, crucial for efficient calcium absorption. And because Orthodox Jews don't eat dairy products for six hours after eating meat, they have fewer opportunities to consume calcium. Recommendation: Orthodox kids should take supplements...
...Then she went on an experimental drug called Glivec, and within weeks everything changed. "All my energy started coming back," she says. "Suddenly I could read. I could take a walk." By August, tests showed her bone marrow was clear of leukemia cells; in December she took up the Argentine tango. She still has the lists of what her daughters will get, but, she exults, "They're not going...
Then she went on an experimental drug called Gleevec, and within weeks everything changed. "All my energy started coming back," she says. "Suddenly I could read. I could take a walk." By August, tests showed her bone marrow was clear of leukemia cells; in December, she took up the Argentine tango. She still has the lists of what her daughters will get, but, she exults, "They're not going...