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...unreliable, if amusing, collection of essays on certain classes. These essays are no more than one student's opinion, and that student probably has as much in common with you as Adam. The latter seems more reliable, but typically relies on pitiably small samples from which one can extract little conclusive evidence. It gives two important pieces of information (class size and reading list) but both are easily discernible during shopping period...
RAMALLAH, West Bank: Four days of Middle East shuttling by special envoy Dennis Ross has left Yasser Arafat emptyhanded - and spitting mad. All Ross was able to extract from Netanyahu was today's lifting of another travel ban. Says TIME's State Department correspondent Dean Fischer: "It's not much of a concession...
...matter--does contain minute quantities of a compound that inhibits blood-vessel growth, and tumors depend on the rapid growth of internal blood vessels that can feed them. But this substance is locked up in the cartilage and doesn't leak out to the rest of the body. To extract it, scientists have to soak huge amounts of cartilage in harsh chemicals for weeks at a time...
...this morning, and she'll tell you "half a cantaloupe." But that's only half the story. The Brentwood, Calif., literary-agency administrator also had some potassium (for energy), super-oxide dismutase (an antioxidant), lipotropic formula (to fight cholesterol), chasteberry herbs (alleviates premenstrual symptoms), kyolic (aged dried garlic extract), chromium piccolinate (an appetite suppressant), vegetable phyter (dried vegetable concentrate) and 30 or so other nutritional odds and ends...
...immediately. The committee denounced Israel's use of death threats, sleep deprivation and violent shaking of prisoners, and said they violate a 1987 U.N. convention forbidding abusive interrogation methods. Israel has argued that its tactics amount to "moderate physical and psychological pressure," not torture, and are often used to extract information from suspects who may know about terrorist attacks. "We cannot but express disappointment at the conclusions of the committee," said Israel's representative, Yosef Lamdan. "It is absolutely not the case that Israel uses torture." Despite Israel's claim its prisoners are not tortured, more than 20 Palestinians have...