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...course, Yeltsin is just one man. If he's having a tough time of it, just imagine the Russian people. Many are unemployed, starving and really cold. Here at Harvard, at least we can count on dining services to keep us well nourished...
...LOVE NY The buzz in New York is that Hillary Clinton is mulling a run for the Senate in 2000. But why New York--a state in which she has many admirers but no apparent roots to speak of (unless you count attendance at numerous fund raisers)? First, of course, there's an open seat--unlike, say, in her native Illinois. Second, New York has astonishingly loose residency requirements: all she has to do is live there on Election Day--maybe in a nice hotel suite. Other states are less accommodating. Illinois demands you live there at least 30 days...
...have long known genes play a role in almost every ailment from Alzheimer's to yellow fever. But it is only in the past few years that they've learned how to use that information to identify a multitude of new targets and pathways for drug design. Let's count the ways...
...Britain and the U.S., the great age of quantification had begun. An unforeseen consequence of industrialized democracy had been the mammoth increase in the measurement and survey of all sorts of things. Galton relished this new flood of data--"Whenever you can, count" was his motto--and eventually became absorbed in studying the mathematical distribution of what he called "natural ability" among a sample of British subjects. Galton thought natural ability could be tracked down by reading the biographical sketches of eminent Britons in handbooks and dictionaries. When he did so, he discovered that a disproportionate number of these worthies...
When it comes to TV depictions of Mob life, we know we can count on the fact that men will get whacked, women will wear unflattering housecoats and someone at some point will say "prosciutt'." What we don't expect is to follow a wiseguy's path through psychotherapy. Debuting on Jan. 10, this wryly conceived weekly drama focuses on Anthony Soprano (James Gandolfini), a suburban dad and Mafioso whose general malaise and thorny mommy issues send him to the couch. While refraining from slapping the comedy on too thick, creator David Chase has made Soprano's inward search surprisingly...