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...chance for a reprieve: the estrogen-progestin mix might still delay or even prevent various kinds of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. To find out, researchers began a careful analysis of a subset of data from the same Women's Health Initiative that had stirred up such a fuss in the first place...
...other lavish benefits on top of the $20.3 million paid him by HSBC for having his contract terminated with Household International, a firm HSBC recently acquired. But at least HSBC has outperformed the market. It's the idea of "rewards for failure" that has really fueled the fat-cat fuss in Britain. Just as in the U.S., where revelations of corporate piggery last year triggered a populist backlash, Britain's shareholders are asking why they should subsidize the opposite of success. Says Tory M.P. Archie Norman, former chairman of the ASDA supermarket chain, "When time after time, directors walk...
...fuss may seem a little curious, given that Bush's nominations to the lower courts have been so solidly planted on the right. In fact, some skeptical conservatives believe that Bush has been true blue on the lower courts in order to pave the way for nominating the more moderate Gonzales. And perhaps to burnish his conservative credentials, Gonzales has helped select and then sell these judicial nominees. He has personally met nearly all the candidates for district and appellate seats and says they are never asked their opinions on any hot-button issues...
...campaign promise to sign an extension on the assault-weapons ban when it expires next year, while House majority leader Tom DeLay can make the gun lobby happy by suggesting, as he did last week, that no such bill will ever reach Bush's desk. And Democrats can fuss and fume over how Bush and the Republicans are trying to have it both ways--while quietly breathing a sigh of relief at being spared a vote that would expose the party's own divisions on the issue...
...Moreno's lyrics--championed by fans over those of Fred ("Agreeance") Durst and Korn's Jonathan Davis--well, sure, he's the T.S. Eliot of rock's special school. But if you're not grading on a curve, it's hard to see what the fuss is about. Moreno's wordplay is certainly cryptic enough--"Yeah if you'd like that we can ride on a blackhorse/A great new wave Hesperian deathhorse," he screams on the thrashfest When Girls Telephone Boys--but the songs still seem to be about psychic injuries and the people who caused them. It's territory...