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...insisting that there is nowhere near enough data to support the idea that testosterone has anything to do with depression. Other tentative links between genes and depression, however, are also emerging. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, for example, have found four spots on chromosomes that appear to help code for depression only in women and at least one that seems to do the same only...
...even before Griswold's conversion, some whites were hearing a different kind of message from ministers like the Sims' Baptist pastor, the Rev. Ralph Jernigan. He often quoted Bible passages about Jesus' breaking down the "middle wall of partition," as code for racial tolerance. "You couldn't convey too much from the pulpit," Jernigan, 72, recalls, "because you could alienate the people you wanted to lead. But Larry Joe Sims and his family were not racist. That's why what happened was so amazing...
Like Harvard men, John Harvard’s was not that appealing anyway, except that the price was the best Harvard had to offer. So this shopping period, Dartboard has resolved to shop for a new Monday-night dive. And everyone else should too. Besides, after their health code scares this summer, no one wants rattetizers anyway...
...dumping older workers who populate the lower rankings. Ford and Goodyear dropped their forced-ranking systems after a number of discrimination lawsuits. GE is using its grading practice to cut labor costs, says a former manager in the medical division. He says he was pressured to identify employees as "Code 4s" (on a 1-to-4 ranking scale, with 4 being worst) and "get rid of them. I never had 10% of my workers who were Code 4s, but I had to come up with that number. It was baloney." A GE spokesman had no comment...
...that their consumers be guided by integrity and honesty when corporate America outdoes itself each week in reaching new heights of greed and dishonesty? In the market struggle between producers and consumers, wouldn't it be a sign of stupidity for consumers to adhere to a Geneva Convention-style code of conduct while corporations are allowed to pursue any legal or illegal means to maximize profits and re-write the code? Dan Centennial, Colo...