Word: majored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late innings this week and next, don't be surprised. NBC's coverage of the 1989 play-offs marks the end of an era. TV's premier baseball network is being sent to the showers. Indeed, network baseball in general is getting a dunking. Next season CBS takes over major-league baseball's broadcast rights (currently divided between NBC and ABC) but will deliver only twelve games, plus the play-offs and the World Series. That means Saturday-afternoon-at-the- ball-park broadcasts (begun on NBC in 1957) will no longer be a weekly freebie. Those sports fans...
...Even more controversial is Moore's suspicion that lowering cholesterol does not increase one's odds for a longer life. In the major studies that have probed this issue, people with low cholesterol got heart disease less often than those with high levels. But, as Moore points out, the low-cholesterol people did not live longer on average, because some of them died from other ailments. Whether this was by chance or the result of low cholesterol remains an open question. That puzzling outcome does not overly impress most researchers. They feel that as additional, longer studies are completed...
This is precisely what seems to be happening. Abortion, which was thrown out of the judicial closet by last term's decision granting states more regulatory power, is fast blossoming into a major electoral issue in state and local races around the country. The matter is expected to play an important role in the gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey this year. State legislatures, meanwhile, are being hit with a flood of pro-choice and pro-life proposals...
Though one major study shows that most older adoptees -- even those ten and above -- flourish within their new families, for special-needs children suffering the effects of mistreatment or prenatal drug use, the future may depend crucially upon how quickly they can be brought into a stable, attentive home...
President Bush's version of the "choice" idea focuses on two major plans: magnet schools, which attract students by developing specialties in areas like drama and science; and open enrollment, which permits parents to move their children from schools they do not like to ones they...