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WASHINGTON: As the U.S. applies Jesse Helms? formula to squaring its bill with the U.N., Congress is telling the international organization to cut out the fat before it cuts the check. Under a broad foreign affairs bill, arrears will be paid out over a three-year period, but only if the U.N. moves to cut its budget and staff by 1,000 workers. The U.N. must also agree to accept $819 million as full payment even though the organization contends the U.S. owes $1.3 billion. Barring snags, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is expected to approve the legislation today...
PREEMIE PROBLEMS Very premature babies fed intravenously with calcium gluconate--a life-saving formula--may wind up with impaired mental development. It contains aluminum, which could be bad for babies' brains...
Princeton used a stronger form of the same basic formula to defeat Harvard 75-51, the next day. Like Penn, Princeton torched Harvard from the field, with the Tigers making 60.5 percent of their shots...
Doing little more than extrapolating to the current-day and applying an advanced econometric formula, we determine that tripling our $9.1 billion endowment would mean that adding another measly donation of $18.2 billion could get the University named after you. Interesting...
...Crimson relied on a simple, effective formula all season, dispatching worse teams and sticking with the likes of UConn to impress on the national level...