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PENN: This is a myth of people who write about film--who has chemistry together, who doesn't. It's just a function of timing and circumstance, nothing more...
Taking 2 g daily of fish- or soy-oil capsules may boost heart function in the elderly faster than expected--in as little as three weeks, according to a study in Chest...
...which did not apply to the current situation, was designed for cases in which a President is not able to determine or declare that he is incapacitated. It permits the Cabinet or some other body designated by Congress to take power from the President if he is unable to function...
Even after the decision to bring back Classic Coke, company officials were still not quite sure what had hit them. "We did not understand the deep emotions of so many of our customers for Coca-Cola," said President Donald R. Keough. "It is not only a function of culture or upbringing or inherited brand loyalty. It is a wonderful American mystery. A lovely American enigma. And you cannot measure it any more than you can measure love, pride or patriotism...
DIED. Susanne K. Langer, 89, American philosopher who synthesized the thinking of several disciplines into an influential new theory of human mentality; in Old Lyme, Conn. Her seminal work, Philosophy in a New Key (1942), shows how symbol making is the basic function of the human mind and rejects the dichotomy between thought, as expressed in language, and feelings, which require some other sort of symbolic portrayal, like art. In Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, her three-volume masterwork published between 1967 and 1982, she conceives of feelings as the vital process of the mind and argues that "intellect...