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...giving people an awareness that some subgroups differ in terms of their health risks and, therefore, the research should focus on that," Stampfer says...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, | Title: A New Perspective | 12/19/1995 | See Source »

Although administrators, professors and students widely agree that grades at Harvard have increased over the last 20 years, they differ on whether the inflation poses a problem for the University...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: College Considers Grade Inflation | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

Safety regulations differ widely in the three NAFTA countries. Truckers in the U.S. are limited to 10 hours of driving time each day; Canada has a limit of 13; Mexico has no limit. Canada and the U.S. require front brakes, while Mexico does not. The U.S. is the only one that requires random drug testing. Even if uniform rules are agreed on, enforcement will remain a problem. As part of its safety program, the Texas department of public safety conducts periodic raids on the customs yard at Laredo, Higgerson says. But Richard Sparks, a former customs agent, recalls that whenever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURNING UP THE ROAD | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...clubs are not a single institution. Each has its own personality, and they differ considerably in the extent of public humiliation that they make would-be pledges go through. Some of it is in good fun. Some use branding irons...

Author: By Steven A. Engel, | Title: Members Only, In Drag | 12/6/1995 | See Source »

Although the performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh as a barroom singer has won the sort of critical raves that fuel studio campaigns for an Oscar nomination, TIME's Richard Corliss begs to differ: "To praise Leigh in this small, frail film is to mistake big acting for good acting, and shriek for soul." A daring, often endearing actress, Leigh virtually patented the role of neurotic little-girl-lost in such cable-ready classics as "Sister, Sister" and "Miami Blues". Lately, though, strenuous mannerism has clotted her work: bizarre accents in "The Hudsucker Proxy" and "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES . . . GEORGIA | 12/1/1995 | See Source »

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