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...sifted through the scientific literature. None of the studies were definitive. Most were observational studies that showed that women who took HRT lived longer and with fewer health problems than those who didn't. Perhaps HRT was the real reason, or perhaps women on HRT were simply more health conscious than their counterparts. No one could say for sure...
...down things, make a sketch on the back of a cigarette packet, then go back to the studio and paint them in the way I remember them - or should like them to be." His painting of a pavilion, with light streaming out past an empty bench, has conscious echoes of mid-20th century American artist Edward Hopper, whose most iconic canvas is Nighthawks (1942). Stuart Free, who graduated from London's Central St. Martins art school in 1994, has painted 360 pictures of north London, which sell steadily through a local gallery. He doesn't mind being called an "urban...
George Bush has been working on the corporate responsibility speech he plans to give Tuesday for more than a month. And it just keeps getting harder. Always conscious that the president gets blamed for a weak economy (See Bush I, chapter '92), the administration started the process hoping to merely calm a jittery stock market and reassure Americans that the economy - and their 401(k) pension plans - were sound. "We needed to do something to settle the uncertainty," says one senior official. But before the White House could address the string of scandals that have sapped confidence in American business...
...Amtrak were even half as budget conscious as I am, we'd have a train system that worked. Unfortunately, the entire company is in shambles. Monday, the Amtrak board of directors begged Transportation Secretary Norman Minetta for another $200 million in "rescue" funds. The White House seemed uninterested in bailing out the ailing rail system and many GOP leaders, including House Speaker Dennis Hastert, said they'd like to eliminate Amtrak's rail monopoly...
...people." Beckett does emphasize, however, that the monetarism that became Chile's economic creed under Pinochet, and Britain's under Thatcher, was imported from the University of Chicago. Economist Milton Friedman, who was to become a guru to future Thatcher adviser Alan Walters, "rejected the socially conscious economics that had dominated the thinking of democratic governments since the Great Depression of the 1930s," writes Beckett. Under Pinochet and Thatcher, emphasis on the rough-and-tumble of the free market "had unpleasant implications for the trade unions, the poor and the other left-wing or vulnerable interest groups to whom British...