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What do these lucky people have in common? They are united in a pact of longevity by the way their bodies process a waxy, odorless substance present in every human being: cholesterol. Cholesterol? The nemesis of every health- conscious person? The object of a swelling tide of medical diatribes against overeating and underexercising? The primary cause of coronary heart disease, which last year caused 1.5 million heart attacks and 550,000 deaths in the U.S.? How can this be? Isn't cholesterol the enemy...
...chief source of opposition to the BU plan is the Chelsea Teachers' Union, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers. The 350 Chelsea teachers, who have been without a contract since last June, object in particular to BU's request for exemption from public meeting and records laws that govern all school committees...
...descripition, Parr told the judge that there was evidence that Suzanne Moran used a "sharp object" during one of the assaults on her grandson...
...talented cast is led by Mo Rocca as Seymour, a schlemiel who works in a skid-row flower shop owned by Mushnik (Adam Schwartz). Seymour finds a strange plant, which he names Audrey II, after the Audrey who is the object of his affections (Sibel Ergener). Seymour discovers that the plant flourishes only when fed human blood--and it talks, to boot. He must struggle with the Faustian bargain Audrey II offers him: fame and success for the store and Seymour himself, in return for fresh flesh...
Another Math Department bystander darted into his office and returned a few seconds later with a large, awkward wooden object which says was a Renaissance-period ancestor of the flute. After demonstrating how to play the instrument, he passed it around among his friends, some of whom acknowledged that they were already familiar with a modern-day woodwind...