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...legalized gay marriage, eased immigration laws, inaugurated an impressive (and long overdue) Holocaust memorial, made his country No. 1 in world exports and opposed the war in Iraq. In my view, not a bad record at all for seven years in office, and a pretty difficult act to follow! Martin Sauter Paris Normally, Germans are a sedate and patient people. It took 16 years to get sick of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, but here we are, already tired of Schröder after seven years. Kohl's shoes were simply too big for Schröder to fill. If there...
Reverberations from the Houston decision echoed down Wall Street. The day the verdict was announced, Texaco stock fell $3, to close at $36.25, while Pennzoil shot up $7.62, to $57.50. Some irate legal experts felt that the compensation awarded to Pennzoil was disproportionate to the injury. Said Martin Klein, chairman of the American Bar Association's bankruptcy-litigation subcommittee: "Pennzoil is in a better position than it would have been if the merger had gone through...
...Richard Lamm and Arnold Grossman; St. Martin's Press 264 pages...
...study, conducted by Dr. Martin Lipkin and Harold Newmark at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, ten people with typical Western-style high-fat diets and family histories of colon cancer were given 1.2 grams, 1½ times the recommended daily allowance, of calcium, which acts to neutralize bile acids. After only two to three months, tests of their colon linings showed that the number of fast-growing cells associated with cancer had significantly decreased. More study is needed, but at least one expert has already urged adults to drink a quart of fat-free milk...
...roads. Yet Scilly's hub, Hugh Town on St. Mary's, is less than three hours by boat from Penzance or a 15-minute airplane ride from Land's End, both in Cornwall. Once there, vacationers usually hop between the five main islands?Tresco, pictured; St. Mary's, St. Martin's, St. Agnes and Bryher?on the regular ferries. And beyond the intimate, granite-clad harbors with their pubs, tea gardens and lighthouses, Neolithic settlements are scattered along the luscious Gulf Stream-fed moorland, ripe for exploration. "The Isles of Scilly are one of the warmest locations...