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...since Fox says he believes that curbing extreme speech is not part of the Administrative Board's (Ad Board) function, he says there is little need for an explicit code to set limits for disciplinary action...
...more in need of economic reform than any other country in the Mediterranean. Per capita income in Syria is $800, while its GNP is one-seventh the size of Israel's. The World Health Organization estimates that 28 percent of Syrian children suffer from stunted growth--largely a function of malnutrition. Syria needs to make peace because only the financial dividends that come with it can save its economy from collapse...
...vial of herbs to ease your way through say, the rigors of tax preparation, you might find labels that read: "Vitamin ZZZZ: Helps You Relax." You won't, however, find supplements claiming to cure your impending sleeplessness or panic attacks. Likewise, you'll find products that "maintain memory function," but nothing that claims to reverse serious memory loss. And even though some products' claims can make those herbs seem awfully tempting, TIME medical writer Christine Gorman warns, "the watchword for consumers is caveat emptor. People have the mistaken belief that there is scientific proof these supplements do what they...
...does the fact that they're less prone to heart failure mean that Japanese and Mediterraneans have stronger tickers than Northern Europeans and Americans? Not exactly. The Dutch researchers who conducted the study believe it's more a function of cultural factors such as diet: Mediterraneans and Japanese tend to favor low-cholesterol diets, low on meats and fried foods and heavy on fish and olive oil. The authors of the study suggest that in high-risk regions the standard blood pressure test included in most checkups be replaced by a "global score" that includes such factors as cholesterol level...
...there to sate the demand of both the individuals and the institutions that want them. A slight curtailing of the new-issue pipeline, mandated by regulators as a pre-Y2K bug precaution, caused the few Business-to-Business plays out there, like VerticalNet, to soar. Stocks trade as a function of supply and demand, and right now every dotcom is Pokemon at Christmas--only in the case of stocks, the shortage won't be fixed anytime soon...