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...yearnings. "He needs to show he's got chits in the party," says Carney, if he wants to increase his leverage in the Senate - or run for the nomination again, Reagan-style, in 2004 as the one man who can wrest the country from a 12-year Clinton-Gore habit. A minor possible conflict of interest that'll explain a lot if these summits aren't completely, well, convincing...
...using their computers to goof off or visit unauthorized websites. But teachers have the ability to track where students have been on the Web and to restrict them. "That is the worst when they disable you," says eighth-grade honors student Jamie Bassell. "You go through laptop withdrawal." The habit is rubbing off on parents. "I taught my mom to use e-mail," says another eighth-grader, Katherine Hypolite. "And now she's taking computer classes. I'm so proud...
...Heart Association, those among us who have what is diplomatically referred to as "a short fuse" are three times more likely to have a heart attack than are our more placid peers. And this isn't true only for rage that's combined with a pack-a-day smoking habit or a penchant for pastries, as the researchers were quick to point out. Even when other heart-battering behaviors were taken into account, a causative effect between anger and heart attacks was apparent during the course of the investigation, which took place over six years at the University of North...
...kind to Happy Gilmore, the-hockey-player; as a golfer, however, he’s a club-carrying, bull-riding stud. Then there’s the 1986 classic Youngblood. Rob Lowe in the title character of Dean Youngblood is a Canadian junior hockey player who has a bad habit of thinking with his johnson instead of his brain. He sleeps with the coach’s daughter and, when daddy finds out, gets benched, forced to watch the other side decimate his teammates...
...improvements in the second half are definitely encouraging," Walton said. "We've made progress but we're still in the habit of losing it at the beginning of the second half...