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While UHS doctors and administrators largely discount student complaints about care, they widely agree that the health service needs to improve the availability of that care...
Even staunch believers in heredity's influence do not discount environment. In fact, the two are intimately entwined, and separating cause and effect is not easy. Biology may affect behavior, but behavior and experience also influence biology. Serotonin levels, for example, are not only controlled by genes but, according to research in monkeys, they can be lowered by regular exposure to alcohol. By the same token, says Kagan, a child with a fearless personality may turn into a criminal if reared in a chaotic home, but given a stable upbringing, "he could well become a CEO, test pilot, entrepreneur...
...FRIDAY, PHILIP MORRIS SLASHED 40 CENTS OFF THE price of Marlboro cigarettes, reducing the average cost of a pack to $1.80. Admitting that this aggressive pricing could reduce earnings 40% this year, the company said it had to meet the challenge of discount and generic brands. Fears of a price war prompted Wall Street to dump tobacco stocks. Philip Morris shares plunged $14.75, to $49.38, and since the company is among the 30 firms whose stocks are in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, that bellwether index plummeted. A weak bond market and news that the unemployment rate remained...
...this way, baseball is only reflecting America. Everywhere now, we are asked to accept less quality for more money. Instead of making baseball a faster, more watchable game that attracts young people (which can be done with a few rule changes and discount tickets for children), the powers-that-be build new ballparks with corporate contributions and municipal funds. The end result is that too many baseball fans are lowering their standards. We don't expect better from the teams we see on the field. In fact, baseball, like our schools and businesses, is teaching us to accept mediocrity...
...first novel. The same River Twice. Chris Offutt Plungers directly into the sophisticate realm of high fiction. Directly, that is, if you discount his only other published work, Kentucky Straight. In that collection of short fiction. Offutt shamelessly sold out his Kentucky heritage to Random. House. After slogging through the nine stories in the Paw-dun-hung-himself-with-his-belt vein. I was dreading the two hundred pages of memoir that make up. The Same River Twice. But Offutt has tired of Flogging the dead horse of his homeland, and has produced as intelligent and enthralling account...