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Massachusetts, as a state, has the third highest number of residents without any explicit protections of genetic information. Implementation of genetic information regulations will not only remove this blemish but will also protect individuals in a time when genetic information will only become more commonplace...
Over Labor Day weekend, the Reform Party's highest public-office holder and a kingmaker, Minnesota's Jesse Ventura, tracked Trump down in Las Vegas and encouraged him to run, telling him Trump could draw from the same disaffected groups as Ventura did. The two stayed in touch, and last week Ventura called to say he could come to New York. Trump said, "Come to dinner at my place [the four-star Jean Georges at the Trump International Hotel]. I'll bring Melania." Ventura said, "Great. I'll bring Woody Harrelson...
...York City's highest society ladies convened to do good. Nan Kempner, one of the most esteemed members of that coterie, sent out invitations to a charity sale that offered more than the evanescent pleasure of a $10,000 lunch. It gave guests the opportunity to buy a shahtoosh, a shawl that justifies its name, "King of Wool," by reputedly being both light enough to pass through a wedding ring and warm enough to hatch a pigeon's egg. "Shahtooshes are so utterly tightly woven of this wonderful, thin wool," enthuses Kempner. "We started wearing them when people were harassed...
Take MCI WorldCom's 10-10-220 long-distance service. You pay 99[cents] for the first 20 minutes--a bargain if you talk a lot. But you pay 99[cents] even if you're on the line for just a minute, making that rate one of the highest around. They don't tell you that. Here are some tips to keep your phone bill down...
DIED. ALEX LOWE, 40, perhaps the greatest American mountaineer in recent years; in a massive avalanche on Tibet's Shisha Pangma, the world's 14th highest peak. Lowe climbed the nose of El Capitan in 10 hrs. and made the first solo ascent of the north face of Wyoming's Grand Teton. He conquered Everest twice. Despite the superlatives regularly heaped on him by colleagues, he said, "I'm just the world's most dogmatic climber...