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...content" than an Oldsmobile. The only policy that will benefit all Americans, Reich writes, is for Washington to "invest" in the two assets that won't leave the country: "human capital," such as education and job training; and physical infrastructure, from roads and bridges to high-speed railroads and fiber-optic communications. Such public investments, Reich argues, will encourage both U.S. and foreign firms to create jobs in America. How would Reich finance these expensive new investments? By raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans and cutting defense spending...
...Most of the preliminary design was completed a while ago...We've been in the planning stage for about two years," Holmes said. "We're now in the process of obtaining bids for fiber optic facilities...
WOMEN HAVE BEEN TOLD FOR YEARS THAT ONE WAY to reduce the risk of breast cancer is to eat the right diet: plenty of fiber, not too much fat. But a major new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association says it ain't necessarily so. After keeping tabs on nearly 90,000 women for eight years, doctors at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and other institutions found no evidence for the assertion. Earlier studies had pointed to the same conclusion, but diehards still think the link may exist. They point out that...
...Iceman was well prepared for the Alpine chill. His basic garment was an unlined fur robe made of patches of deer, chamois and ibex skin. Though badly repaired at many points, the robe had been cleverly whipstitched together with threads of sinew or plant fiber, in what appears to be a mosaic-like pattern, belying the popular image of cavemen in crude skins. "The person who made the clothes initially was obviously skilled. This indicates that the Iceman was in some way integrated into a community," says prehistorian Egg, who is restoring the clothes at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum...
...Peter Kostishack '96 said, "It brought out the natural fiber-wearing, buckwheat pancake- eating, protest-attending, equal rights-advocating, star-gazing, nature-walking, sensitive...