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...best two years," confirms Barbara. "But then I always think what I'm doing is best. I haven't had too many bad ones, you know." In fact, the First Lady has had trying times: she has ridden the political roller coaster with her husband, seen divorce and financial trouble touch her children, been slowed by illness. Yet she smothers it all with what one close friend describes as her "big optimism...
Sleep-deprived workers may resort to alcohol and drugs as a way to compensate for fatigue. But the solution only compounds the distress. Many people wind up on a hurtling roller coaster, popping stimulants to keep awake, tossing down alcohol or sleeping pills to put themselves out, then swallowing more pills to get up again...
...gotten to this situation because the leadership of the health- sciences research community has addressed the problems on a short-term, piecemeal basis, essentially looking at the problem only as long as the one- year budget cycle of Congress. That style of leadership has led to a virtual roller coaster of boom and bust. We are now suffering from a vacuum in national leadership for science in general and health science in particular...
This year, however, with Holleran's drop-shot missing from the Harvard ranks, Princeton junior Hope MacKay emerged victorious. In a roller-coaster championship match, MacKay beat Yale junior Berkeley Belknap, from whom Holleran swiped the title last year...
...still make an exceptional price was in fact confirmed earlier this month at Sotheby's in London when a great Constable landscape, The Lock, 1824, was bought by Baron Thyssen for $21.1 million.) Michael Findlay, head of Christie's Impressionist and modern art sales, called the market a "roller coaster" -- inexactly, since roller coasters go up and down but always finish at the level where they started. The next big sales, in the spring, may or may not bring a second dramatic plunge. But they will almost certainly see more deflation in the contemporary market, which even the most purblind...