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...from paying any more for it politically), did not propose that employees be limited in how much of their company's stock they can hold in their account. (What if it happens to a good investment?) It's also why the things Bush is proposing are, to put it mildly, rather mild. Bush's plan, hot off the task-force presses, would require companies...
...team says it hasn’t been hurt by the mild winter. Harvard trains on a golf course that makes snow, so a lack of winter conditions has not been the problem...
Lost keys, confusion in the parking lot and more and more stories that start "Did I ever tell you...?" They may be harbingers of something serious like Alzheimer's. Or maybe not. What clinicians call "mild cognitive impairment" can be caused by trauma, depression or the side effects of medication. While not all cases of MCI lead inexorably to dementia, new studies suggest that a substantial number do. There are no drugs to prevent Alzheimer's, but there are treatments for MCI that can slow deterioration and preserve mental function a little longer...
...accidental discovery, but it could hardly be called serendipitous. By adding a single gene to its DNA, Australian researchers turned a mousepox virus that normally causes only mild symptoms in rodents into a virulent killer that wiped out all their lab mice in less than 10 days. Alarms were sounded, not over the prospect of mouse plague but out of concern that rogue scientists might use the technique to create human pathogens even more lethal than anthrax or smallpox...
...from the "frenetic" tech investment boom of the late '90s to the "fierce and unrelenting" decline in same that, sharpened by Sept. 11, has landed us in our current predicament. Considering the height of our heights, this recession - if indeed 2002 is a recovery year - has been a "relatively mild downturn...