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...take-home message is caution rather than the need for drastic behavior change. It might be prudent to say that if you're predisposed to RA - whether because you possess the other risk factors or because you have a genetic susceptibility - it might be wise to cut back on the morning brew. So, until scientists can pinpoint the definite link, do your joints a favor and percolate with care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Coffee Causing Those Aching Joints? | 7/26/2000 | See Source »

Bill, however, made a drastic mistake. His conscience was usurped by his ego. As Bill announced his "boredom" with the vocation of Massachusetts governor, he clearly adopted delusions of grandeur by announcing his candidacy for a Massachusetts Senate seat. Though voters might toss aside their party tendencies and elect a Republican governor, a Republican senator is an entirely different story. Attempting to barge into the domain of the Kennedys does not increase popularity in Massachusetts. Though he was running against an equally undesirable character, John F. Kerry--the man who plainly used his wife's ketchup fortune to fund...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Hero No More | 7/14/2000 | See Source »

Schrag's work focuses on the history of climate, from studies of drastic changes millions of years ago to global warming and its effects today...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Geochemistry Professor Awarded 'Genius Grant' for Climate Research | 6/23/2000 | See Source »

...drastic improvement in reading scores has not come easily: more than three dozen separate initiatives address reading, far more programs than currently address any one of the other 10 goals...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Schools Lick Wounds After a Year of Painful Decisions | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...moms--even when they have guns themselves--know that requiring manufacturers to put gun locks on those guns and keep them out of the hands of convicted felons is not the drastic curtailing of second amendment rights that the Second Amendment Sisters (a small group of women who launched a minor counter protest on Sunday) and the NRA would like us to believe. The lives "saved" by guns every year--like the 1,500 murders John R. Lott estimates were prevented by states that allow concealed weapons to be carried in 1992--don't measure...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Not a Million, But a March To Remember | 5/17/2000 | See Source »

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