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...three on the list are Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft Corp; George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. President; and Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Others who made the list are Bill O’Reilly, host of the news show the O’Reilly Factor, and Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill. John Adler ’06 said he thought 02138 was superfluous because he already knows about the most famous alumni profiled on the 02138 list. “It’s good that the magazine will highlight the most interesting things that...
...When people say it's undergraduate humor I think they're wrong," Jones says of the Python style. "It's postgraduate humor." (Like MP&HG, which grew out of Jones' study of Chaucer.) Yet the adolescence factor can't be dismissed. Squint a little, and you could see the Pythons as British versions of the American college jocks who reached their apex of glory and achievement as young men, then went into real estate, coasting on their lingering allure. It's true, anyway, if we see the TV show and Holy Grail as an extension of the glamorous days Jones...
...political history of Rep. Ford's extended family is interesting, to say the least, and could be a factor. Aunt Ophelia's state Senate seat was recently voided because of a voting scandal last year. Uncle John was forced out of the selfsame Senate seat after being indicted on several counts of bribery and extortion...
...best friend. Marine mammal experts aren't always as sentimental about the sharp-toothed creatures as the public is--one expert referred to otters eating shellfish on their tummies as "buzz saws in a fur coat"--but no one doubts the value of the "aww" factor. "When you've been bitten by one, you don't think they're so cute," says Michelle Staedler, the Monterey Aquarium's sea otter research coordinator, "but then you look, and they're a big ball of fluff." [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy or pdf.] Hunted Nearly To Extinction Russia...
...other way around: the sleep disruptions are what's causing the depression. Another theory is that during episodes of the severe disorder known as sleep apnea-when breathing briefly stops altogether-there are moments when the brain isn't getting enough oxygen, another possible risk factor for depression...