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...barely socialized young computer geeks--has moved beyond the studied informality of "business casual" to truly casual. Inside the Washington Beltway, meanwhile, people still swim through swamplike summer heat and humidity wearing dark wool suits and damp white shirts, their air supply constricted by a tight Windsor knot...
...untangle this knot of contradictory advice, women have desperately sought better information. And last week the New England Journal of Medicine provided the best they're likely to get for some time. In the largest study of its kind, a team of researchers led by Francine Grodstein of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital tracked the health histories of some 60,000 post-menopausal nurses over a period of 18 years. The results boil down the benefits and risks of estrogen to a fairly concise set of percentages...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: With the spending portion of the balanced budget deal finished business in both houses of Congress, the House is set to venture back onto politically uncertain ground tonight with a vote to slash taxes over the next five years by $85 billion and tie the knot on the plan to balance the budget for the first time in 30 years. Under the Republican-proposed measure, Congress would tighten its tax belt by offering American families a $500 per child tax credit, across-the-board reductions in capital gains and estate taxes and a $10,000 deduction for education...
...almost never. Last week three generations of the Shabazz family were bound into a single knot of misery. In a New York City hospital, Shabazz was in extremely critical condition with third-degree burns over 80% of her body, the result of a fire inside her Yonkers, N.Y., apartment. Police say the blaze was set by her grandson, who had lived with her for most of the past two years and returned in April after a brief, rocky stay with his mother in San Antonio, Texas. Friends and neighbors say Malcolm, 12, wanted to live again with his mother Qubilah...
...Bears, fresh off a victory over 3rd ranked Syracuse and a close loss to 1st ranked Princeton, tried to struggle back when they scored two unanswered goals in the first four minutes of the second period to knot the score at two apiece...