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...March, New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani epitomized the spoofing spirit of the media mafia's Inner Circle dinner. Things got heavier fast as the mayor learned he had prostate cancer, revealed he had a girlfriend, separated from his wife and nixed his prospective U.S. Senate campaign against Hillary Clinton...
...most prominent effect, reported last spring in the Journal of Pediatrics, was that boys exposed to DDE and girls exposed to PCBs were heavier than their unexposed peers at age 14. The study also noted an intriguing fact: girls with high prenatal PCB exposure tended to hit the first stages of puberty a bit earlier than others. Rogan stresses that the numbers were too low to be statistically significant. "If there is an effect of environmental chemicals on puberty," he says, "it's pretty small, because we studied these kids in detail over a long period of time...
...middle fifth by seven percent, the top one percent of taxpayers will find their tax burden dropping by 13.6 percent--nearly twice as much as the middle class. When looked at as a whole, the Bush plan makes the relative tax burden of the poor and middle class heavier and that of the rich lighter; its claims of fairness apply only to one tax out of the entire system...
...judge offering a choice between marriage and jail? And if so, which was the heavier ball and chain? Gabbin wasn't clear on what the judge was saying, but if he was going to be held prisoner either way, he preferred the deal where you sleep with the warden...
Most of these students are among the 900 B.A. candidates, he says, because the heavier first-year requirements of engineering and science students leave them less room for seminars...