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...this really necessary? Probably. The human eye can distinguish roughly 6 million colors, and as most of us know, not all hues are created equal, chromatically speaking. A blue can be nearly black or nearly green and still be blue. Moreover, ambient light changes everything. How many mornings have you dressed in semidarkness only to show up at work in an outfit that looks as if it was assembled in total darkness...
...preliminaries have already begun. In meetings with incoming White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, House minority leader Richard Gephardt--Al Gore's likeliest rival for the 2000 nomination--has warned the Administration not to go beyond the 1995 Democratic proposal of $124 billion in Medicare cuts. To distinguish himself from Gore, Gephardt knows he has to play to Democratic loyalists like seniors and union members. "I'm not going to be for something that slashes Medicare," he says. Though some form of means testing is all but inevitable, trustees say, Gephardt won't hear of it, and Clinton...
...many record companies have signed too many one-hit alternative acts and thus diluted the quality of the genre (it's an old musical story--just see Tom Hanks' period comedy on the subject, That Thing You Do). "With a lot of the music, it's hard to distinguish one band from another," complains Hooman Majd, executive vice president of Island Records. "I've seen A&R people [the executives who are responsible for scouting and signing bands], who know music better than anyone, hear a record come on, and even they can't tell which band...
...other immune-system cells called macrophages to attack the joints. The approach favored by IDEC Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company in San Diego, is to target all active T cells with a custom-made antibody that can temporarily knock the immune cells out of commission. Although this antibody treatment cannot distinguish between normal and misbehaving T cells, the gambit has proved successful. More than half the 122 patients in one study showed significant improvement without debilitating side effects. "We literally had patients dancing in the halls," says Dr. Craig Wiesenhutter, director of the Coeur d'Alene Arthritis Clinic in Idaho...
...Crimson has also reported that part of the problem was the inability of Harvard Dining Services (HDS) workers to distinguish administrators and faculty from tourists. This, of course, angered some administrators. Why will graduate students be better at eyeing tourists than HDS workers who see them every day, if they do not know the professors? A sign would take care of any ambiguity and if, Heaven help us, a tourist snuck in, we would all survive...