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Guidelines on girth have been the subject of a growing dispute since 1983, when the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. updated its charts on desirable weight. The poundage associated with the lowest death rates, the insurance firm found, had risen by as much as 14 Ibs. over such weights in its...
Yet the debt-laden deals have their defenders. "I don't think leverage is a bad thing," says John Makin, director of fiscal-policy studies at Washington's American Enterprise Institute. "Very few people would own a house without it. It is a very important tool of modern finance." At...
After all, for decades scientists and others have been ransacking the brain for the soul of an equally mysterious power: genius. Perhaps the most famous case is Einstein. Slices of his brain were recently pored over by a pair of California neuroscientists. More revealing of the bizarre possibilities of this...
Western TV viewers are already familiar with Georgi Arbatov, 62, in his role as a Kremlin analyst of U.S.-Soviet relations. As the longtime head of the Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada, an arm of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Arbatov has turned the...
After a tree-planting ceremony at the embassy followed by a brief lunch with Sir Oliver and Lady Wright, the Ambassador and his wife, who are the official hosts of the royal couple, Charles and Diana went their separate ways. He went to the American Institute of Architects and she...