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...help that Boesky has given to authorities may explain what many Wall Streeters feel has been extraordinary leniency shown toward the speculator, given the extent of his alleged misdoings. In 1984 U.S. securities laws were amended to allow confiscation of as much as three times the illegal profits earned from insider trading. But Boesky's $100 million penalty includes only $50 million in returned illegal profits, or about the same amount of ill- gotten gains cited in the SEC's Nov. 14 complaint. What many Wall Streeters found even more surprising, in view of the sweep of his illegal activities...
Cutler and her colleagues found that regular sex eased problems of menopause and infertility by making menstrual cycles more regular. Still, she notes, "it wasn't clear until our most recent studies how important male essence really is, but now that we know this, it helps explain our earlier findings. You might say that exposure to pheromones is the essence of sex." Cutler is braced for an attack on her findings from gays and lesbians. She observes, in what may be the understatement of the year, "They may not accept this...
Indeed, the theory could explain not only the large-scale structure of the universe but also the origin of galaxies and other puzzling celestial phenomena. It combines some of the most advanced ideas in astrophysics and elementary-particle physics, and joins the independent research of Ostriker and Physicist Edward Witten. The unifying element: the cosmic strings -- bizarre, hypothetical entities that are thinner than an atomic nucleus, as long as the universe is wide, and so dense that a mile-long segment would weigh as much as the earth...
Olin stresses that it is appropriate to explain things differently at different ages. Until perhaps age eight, the questions are mainly biological and the answers should be too. But at ten, parents and educators need to explain masturbation, wet dreams and menstruation, for example. At that age, she says, children do not need to know about birth control. Sex educators agree that girls should understand in advance the most important and indeed shocking physical changes that will affect their bodies during their lifetimes. And boys, who mature more slowly and undergo less dramatic physical changes, should nonetheless be told what...
Whatever he thinks, it will be largely up to Shultz to explain and defend the dealings with Iran to American allies. He had to start last week in, oddly enough, Paris, where he had gone after a meeting with Shevardnadze in Vienna. Shultz was in France to discuss arms-control problems and other policy matters with French leaders, including Premier Jacques Chirac. The U.S. has been critical of France for not joining a British attempt to boycott Syria diplomatically as a terrorist nation and for its haste in negotiating a deal to return to Tehran Iranian funds that had been...