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...incoming Senate Banking Committee chairman Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.) has threatened to -- the poll found a plurality of the 1,016 respondents (46 percent) thought Clinton had behaved unethically but not illegally in his dealings with an Arakansas thrift. Why keep the Senate gavels in the drawer? Two-thirds said hearings would simply be a political attempt to hurt Clinton; only a fourth thought they would be a legitimate attempt to learn the truth...
...possibility that drugs could control weight problems -- were developed by researchers at Rockefeller University. They say they have isolated the first gene that clearly participates in the normal process of regulating weight, though genetics remains one of several factors involved.TIME medical writer Christine Gormansays the discovery, through "top-drawer" research, is the first hard evidence to support a decades-old hypothesis that a "feedback loop" between body and brain regulates weight. In the case of many obese people, she says, the new findings suggest a protein is sending the wrong signal, resulting in lower metabolism and excessive hunger. "The implications...
...bottom left drawer, no one will ever know...
...letter from Sedaris which she'd posted over her desk. This missive, a pseudo-business letter thanking the manager fro her hospitality, was crumpled and dirty and Sedaris had scrawled an apology in pencil below the text: "I wrote this months ago but just found it in my drawer yesterday. Waaaa!" The letter described New York City in the summer as a trash dump with boutiques and was signed "Love, David Sedaris." Even though the letter wasn't for me, I was charmed. I resolved to read his book...
...baseball player, Moe Berg belonged in the sock drawer of fame. He began his professional career in 1923 as the third baseman for the Brooklyn Robins and ended it 17 years later as the third-string catcher for the Boston Red Sox. He spent most of his playing days schmoozing and reading in dugouts and bullpens. His lifetime batting average was .243, he had only six home runs, and he was error-prone. If Berg ever stole a base, his latest biography, The Catcher Was a Spy (Pantheon; 453 pages; $24), does not mention...