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Still, many University higher-ups are embarking on interesting summer excursions, from multi-country tours to home-grown road trips...
...credited higher standards and a field open to all kinds of candidates as creating a good environment for public servants...
...health problem with the highest mortality rate in the nation. A study of 5,621 men and women over 65 published in Thursday?s New England Journal of Medicine reveals that the presence of a benign condition known as aortic valve sclerosis may be associated with a 50 percent higher risk of death from heart disease. The finding is significant because the condition, a hardening or thickening of a tiny heart valve, ?is incredibly common among the elderly,? says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. About a quarter of persons over 65 have aortic valve sclerosis...
...Breed of horror films was postmodern and self-mocking," says David Koepp, director and screenwriter of the ghostly Stir of Echoes. "The new New Breed movies aim a bit higher in the hierarchy of horror." Koepp's film, to open in September, stars Kevin Bacon as a blue-collar guy haunted by intimations of a distressed, deceased soul somewhere in his house. Says Koepp: "I tried creating a sense of total reality, because the movies that always scared the hell out of me were set in real, almost mundane domestic situations." In these restless residences and bucolic settings, fear...
There is nothing token about the new outreach programs. They are not remedial but creative, even difficult. Dick and Jane have been replaced by Antigone and Pericles. Middle-school math tutorials go on for hours and progress to higher algebra. SAT drills are constant, and college essays are rewritten many times. "Its a huge difference," says U.C. Irvine student tutor Sonia Velazquez. "Kids know when it's remedial and they're being talked down to, no matter how nice you put it." But to be in the outreach program means to be special, bright, even cool. When Willard held sign...