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...direct questions at first. But Phillips was undeterred. After making jokes about his own "uncool" haircut and lobbing out a couple of easy questions like "What's four plus three?" and "Do you like to draw?", he finally got his audience warmed up and eased them on to the heavier topic of truth, lies and secrets. "When is it not better to tell the truth?" Phillips asked his now rapt audience. "When is it good to lie?" Mariela, 10, who has severe asthma, replied, "When you're trying to help somebody escape from something like slavery...
...rather than the other way around) by undermining the immune system, for example. Or that an underlying problem--perhaps chronic inflammation--was making the women's bodies a breeding ground for both bacterial infections and tumors. It's worth noting that the antibiotics users were, on average, older and heavier, had stronger family histories of cancer and were more likely to use hormone-replacement therapy--all risk factors for breast cancer. It is the sort of study, noted Dr. Roberta Ness in an accompanying editorial, that raises more questions than it answers...
...especially when it comes to bonuses and share options," says Lars-Erik Forsg?rdh, managing director of the Swedish Shareholders' Association. Asbrink, who heads the Swedish trust commission, says: "We have to increase transparency and sanctions for breaking the rules." Among his proposals: more jail time for lawbreaking executives and heavier fines. You can't legislate against greed. But those tougher penalties should go a long way toward rebuilding trust among Scandinavians...
Rather than have Jantzen wrestle at his normal 149 lbs. position, Weiss chose to wrestle him up against the Warriors’ Keith Kelckner and send sophomore Mike Baria in at the 149-lb. slot. Though Baria lost the match 6-4, Jantzen pinned his heavier opponent just over a minute into the match to bring Harvard within one at 19-18. The scoring situation meant that whichever team won the next and final match would win the meet...
Sources tell TIME that cell-phone guns, some of which have been seized in drug raids in the Netherlands, England and Germany, have been cited in several federal security alerts over the past year, the most recent just over a month ago. Though heavier than normal phones, the lethal ones look nearly identical. The hollowed-out devices, made in Croatia, are fired by punching buttons on the keypad and can shoot four .22-cal. bullets in rapid succession...