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...answers in an iron-clad lock box where they will be safe until November 2004. At that time, answer the survey questions again and compare your 2000 and 2004 responses. Will you be better off? Possibly. Will this improvement be the direct result of the next president? In all likelihood, no. But as a civic-minded Harvard graduate, won't you be glad that you have a way to outsmart the candidates, see through their rhetoric and make a judgment for yourself...
Harvard failed to even the score in the game's final minutes, as it watched both the match, and, in all likelihood, its tournament hopes slip through its fingers...
...decision carries some risk for pro-life Republicans. However, they no doubt figured that holding up the budget on principle wasn't worth the political capital it would almost certainly cost them. It would, for instance, provide the perfect opening for Gore to once again bring up the likelihood that Bush - who has maintained a studiously vague stance on the abortion issue - would stock the Supreme Court with pro-life Justices...
PROBLEM PILL So much for free love. For women with a family history of breast cancer, birth-control pills that were made before 1975 may have raised the already heightened likelihood of developing the cancer. Advice: be extra vigilant about getting mammograms if you have close relatives with breast cancer--and if you were using the Pill back when the times they were a-changin...
AFTER THE FALL If you're thinking of trying in-vitro fertilization to get pregnant, you might consider waiting a few months. A report from Israel suggests that the likelihood of an egg's being fertilized, and the quality of the embryo that results, are lowest in autumn. No explanation yet, but things pick up by winter and peak when signs of life are popping up everywhere: in spring...