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...testimony, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted 9 to 6 to recommend that silicone breast implants be allowed back on the market. Their sale was halted in 1992 because of concerns that leaking implants could cause serious illness. Later studies found no evidence that implants caused the myriad chronic diseases that had been attributed to them. But because of lingering concerns, the panel put conditions on their approval. The manufacturer must continue to follow patients for 10 years, it must give women coming in for implants information about scarring, ruptures and other complications, and it must advise women...
...opposition forgets that America enjoys an open culture, and tolerance of citizens’ myriad beliefs is key in maintaining this ideal. It is on these principles that the court ruling criticizes the pledge as “a profession of a religious belief, namely, a belief in monotheism.” To retain this slogan is to impose a conviction that not all Americans share...
...provides such a perfect Rorschach test for all those looking to convince themselves--and the rest of us--that they are the ideal candidate for the times. Just about everyone who is going to face the voters 13 months from now saw something positive in the results. There are myriad theories as to what the Arnold Effect means--and most of them are true...
...tries to order food in a Parisian cafe as crushingly happy French patrons carouse all around her, are made more significant by the way in which they resonate with real life. These are not jokes written for the approval of a laugh track; they are humorous glimpses into the myriad illogical ways in which we behave...
...music department at Harvard is often criticized for its rigid curriculum, based largely on classical music. Amidst myriad courses on bygone musical genres, the twelve-student class Music 167r, “Electroacoustic Composition,” seems slightly out of place...