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...both sides of the issue return next week from their July 4th recess, they are re-loading their muskets. Reformers plan to gather Monday to pick which issue on their long list will drive their next ambush. DeLay has vowed to keep fighting just as hard to support groups like the Republican Majority Issues Coalition. "They're not going to intimidate me," said the outspoken whip. So, despite all the celebration, no one is calling for fireworks just yet. Unless they're for battle...
Real New Yorkers don't gawk from the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty. But, just like tourists, even jaded natives love to stroll through Central Park, maybe kick back in a paddleboat, nosh a hot dog, gather for the world's best people watching. It's an oasis--today a safe one, usually--so how on June 11 did it become a hunting ground for a roving pack of sexual aggressors? How did four or five dozen guys, some obviously drunk and stoned, get away with groping and in some cases stripping as many as 47 women...
Vitamin E is another common memory nostrum, popular because it is an antioxidant, able to gather up and neutralize cell-damaging chemicals known as free radicals, a highly reactive form of oxygen that is a normal byproduct of metabolism. Like ginkgo, vitamin E has been tested mostly on Alzheimer's patients and has been shown to slow down the advance of the disease as much as seven months--not much for a condition that takes years to do its brain-ravaging work, but progress nonetheless. "There is a lot of evidence that there's oxidative damage in the brain both...
...Zeckhauser's assistants, Polly Price, associate vice president for human resources, and Kim A. Roberts '78, director of the office of labor and employee relations, served as experts on the University's labor policies, and bore the brunt of the committee's charge to gather as much data as possible about casual and contracted employees...
...thing that has occurred at Yale over the years is that students develop early and obviously warm loyalties to their colleges, rather than to their freshman dorms," Nathans writes in an e-mail message. "Thus I gather that the cohesiveness of groups in the freshman dormitories is far less than it traditionally has been here...