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With this device, researchers in Sweden and Britain showed that lead in the bones of workers exposed to high levels of lead may result in kidney damage, Hu said. But his team was the first to show that modest exposure to lead among the general population may also harm the body...
There are things that all of us could improve about ourselves, and the dawn of the new year seems an especially appropriate time to do that. Allow us to make some modest suggestions for new year's resolutions on behalf of members of the College community...
...cost-cutting measure, targeting welfare makes only modest sense. Payouts to the poor are just a sliver of the federal budget. Two of the largest programs, Aid to Families with Dependent Children and food stamps, account for 2.7% of the federal budget. But when Congress shies away from tougher kinds of budget cutting, the sort that would nick the middle class and the wealthy, only the poor and the outsiders are left to take the hits...
That sentiment is growing. A TIME/CNN poll last week found majority support for cutting the subsidies that upper-income Americans receive for retirement, health care, mortgage interest and farming. Relatively modest cuts in these giveaways, and in others for such favored industries as mining and oil drilling, could save the Treasury more than $40 billion a year, according to expert testimony gathered by the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform. The panel is scheduled to submit recommendations to the President this week. But the commission's chairman, Senator Bob Kerrey, a Nebraska Democrat, already stirred the pot last Friday...
...swam very poorly," said a modest senior co-captain Deborah Kory, who herself set a pool record in the 200-yard individual medley. "Dartmouth generally doesn't pose too much of a problem...