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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bentley College grad, responded, “I’m not intimidated.” Despite audience members’ acrimony, the debate itself lacked much controversy. On the topic of improving local traffic conditions, Firenze responded to Brownsberger’s answer with “ditto.” Only on the Iraq war and abortion did the candidates differ. Firenze felt that it would be a “bad idea”—and unconstitutional—for the governor to withdraw the state’s National Guard from Iraq. But Brownsberger...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: State Rep Hopefuls Face Off | 9/29/2006 | See Source »

...effort. While most students do very little work still scrape by in classes like Science A-47, “Cosmic Connections” and QR 28, “The Magic of Numbers,” a little more effort will result in an easy A or A-. Ditto for your History and Lit and Arts courses. In any event, the key to surviving the Core is planning ahead. It can bring misery to students who panic and take a Core class to fulfill a requirement, registering for whatever fits into their schedule at the last minute. Many Cores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Core | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...their genetically huge breasts and - as a consequence - their inability to have sex with one another. (Virtually every turkey you have ever eaten could not copulate without human aid.) These turkeys are a freak of human engineering, so what are they doing at an idyll like Stone Barns? Ditto the Cornish/Rock Cross chickens, a quick-growing, large-breasted breed used by the massive Perdues of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Farm-to-Table Fetish | 8/15/2006 | See Source »

...with disease. If the tests suggest the customer has a gene that promotes, say, a bad cholesterol profile, it can tell that person, based on his dietary and lifestyle profile, how to modify his diet and habits to keep his good (HDL) and bad (LDL) cholesterol in healthy balance. Ditto for other genetic markers. Sciona, says Gill-Garrison, makes sure that each nugget of advice it offers is built on a firm scientific foundation. And a bibliography on the company?s web site, she says, backs up that claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a DNA Test Tell You How to Live Your Life? | 8/1/2006 | See Source »

...their workaday portions of milk, rice, salad and mandarin oranges: marinated, deep-fried fillet of whale. The greasy feast was one of 704 similar lunches the board has provided to 339 schools in the prefecture since January 2005. "Reaction from parents has been uniformly positive," declared principal Yukio Hamanaka. Ditto for the students, who played paper-rock-scissors to divvy up seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whale On the Plate | 4/17/2006 | See Source »

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