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...didn't happen last week, when all six candidates appeared for the first time together, at a dinner in Washington sponsored by NARAL Pro-Choice America. About the best thing that could be said about Kerry's speech on the emotional abortion issue was that it wasn't as flat as North Carolina Senator John Edwards'. The biggest crowd pleasers: Dean, with his bold defense of the procedure opponents call partial-birth abortion, and the Rev. Al Sharpton, who made the sassy declaration that the Christian right should meet "the right Christians...
...Young Al still had high-art ideals, and with an uncle's largesse ($500, which for the mid-20s was very large indeed), he sailed for a year in Europe. With two other budding painters he rented a Paris flat; his part of the tab was $33 - a year. One day, after seeing a show with Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printemps, Al scrawled a sketch of Guitry on a menu. A friend told him the sketch might be publishable if on white paper it were redrawn. In a trice, Hirschfeld produced a clean version. In a fource, the Herald Tribune...
...week: it's nothing more complicated than freezing and thawing--the same process that causes roads to buckle in developed parts of the world. According to lead author Mark Kessler, it all starts with a field strewn randomly with rocks lying on top of soil. No field is perfectly flat, of course, and when the soil freezes in winter, any slight bump expands, pushing the rocks up and to the side. When things thaw out, though, the bump subsides straight down, so the rocks stay where they are. Next winter, the bump expands again--but since it's wider than...
More new hires are demanding a sweet severance deal up front. "The manual probably says you get one week's pay for every year of service, but that's not practical" with no-fault layoffs, Bayer says. You should get a flat six months' pay, along with company-paid health insurance and career counseling. None of this is as good as cash. But no one needs to tell you to get as much of that...
...scans represent a major advance over the simple X ray, which did not allow doctors to visualize brain tissue at all. Instead of a flat, two-dimensional X-ray picture, CT scanners produce a series of successive images. Taken as the patient, lying down, moves through a scanning ring, these "slices" can be combined to create the illusion of depth. The resulting pictures of bone and soft tissue can help doctors distinguish between patients with a psychiatric disorder and those with head trauma (which can trigger similar symptoms). CTs have been particularly useful in identifying schizophrenia patients. In the 1970s...