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...high-scoring students who don't submit scores simply on principle." Lis Bernhardt, a senior at Fairfield High School in Fairfield, Conn., was concerned more with pragmatism than principle. She spent months "consumed" by the SATs, investing countless hours - and more than $1,000 - in tutoring to lift her scores. Then she toured Mount Holyoke, loved the campus and heard about its new SAT-optional stance. She submitted an early-decision application and received a thick acceptance letter in January. Says Lis: "It just appealed to me that they wanted to look at me as a person, the whole package...
...main source of embryonic stem cells is "leftover" embryos from IVF clinics; cloning embryos could provide an almost unlimited source. Progress could come even faster if Congress were to lift the restrictions on federal funding?which might have the added safety benefit of the federal oversight that comes with federal dollars. "We're concerned about George W. Bush's position and whether he'll let existing guidelines stay in place," says West. "People are begging to work on those cells...
...home and abroad, however, fear that a native mogul has cut a deal to buy the canvas on the cheap and then resell it to a foreign collector for a huge profit after bribing Culture Ministry officials to grant an export license or securing a legal move to lift the ban on exports. With three other Black Squares in Russian museums, they wonder, does the state desperately need a fourth? "The cries of saving Malevich for Russians are nonsense," says Konstantin Akinsha, a U.S.-based historian of Russian art. "This smells of greed and chicanery...
Before the pardon, Rich appeared to have it all--a mansion in a Swiss village, a global business and a helicopter to take him skiing where no lift could reach. But if he left Switzerland, Israel or Spain, he risked getting bounced to New York to face criminal tax-evasion charges from 1983. Bounty hunters and U.S. Marshals set traps for him, and Rich missed his father's funeral--and later his daughter's when she died of leukemia in 1996. That's why, for the two decades after he fled the U.S., Rich has been trying...
...SWEAT Perspire so heavily that you don't dare lift your arm? German researchers have come up with a novel treatment: tiny doses of the botulinum toxin--yes, the same poison that causes botulism--injected directly into the armpits. A dozen or so injections are enough to block the nerves that activate sweat glands, but the treatment works only for those who suffer from truly excessive sweating in a restricted area, such as the armpits or the hands. If you drip sweat from head to toe, better stick with a shower...