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Steel Wheels is the name of the record; Nothing Ventured would have suited too. It boasts five reprobates cranking themselves up for yet another crack at the distance, showing their years -- flaunting the things, in point of plain fact -- while they swan around some of the nation's largest concert stages, soaking up the applause and the revenues, blowing off their greatest hits, taking the new material out for an audience airing...
...drug. In its approval process, the FDA relies on a generic-drug manufacturer's in-house lab tests to establish a product's effectiveness. But the temptation for the manufacturer to cut corners can be strong, since the first companies to gain approval are likely to carve out the largest market shares...
...real prehistoric," says Fordham University biologist Mark Botton, a New York Giants cap perched on his curly black hair, as he ambles down the beach just feet from the frenzy. "We call it a random-collision process," he says, describing the orgiastic mating ritual of the world's largest population of horseshoe crabs. "It's just like billiard balls...
Although such efforts hold out hope for improvement, much more needs to be done. By the year 2020, 35% of the American population will be minority, with blacks and Hispanics making up the largest portion. For society's sake as well as for their own survival, colleges cannot afford to have more than a third of the nation view them as inaccessible or inhospitable. Many of the current programs seem to be on the right track, but they will take time to produce results. "If higher education is interested in the harvesting of minority students," says Judy Jackson Pitts...
...government reports issued separately last week seemed to illustrate a cause and an effect. The FBI reported that violent crimes in the U.S. last year jumped 6% over 1987, reaching a record of nearly 1.6 million offenses. The National Conference of State Legislatures, meanwhile, said the largest increase in state spending in the same period was for prisons, which grew...