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...board was entirely female. McLean, pop. 830, also has a female postmaster, justice of the peace, newspaper editor and principal of the schools. "We had a previous administration that had internal problems. People around town kept asking me to run," explains mayor Peggy Baer. "We're a community of older folks, and people say old folks don't change, but many of my supporters were older men. They said, 'Let the women run it. They certainly can't do any worse...
...fixing in Chinese sport has been in the news before. In sports where limber, prepubescent bodies can outmaneuver more mature athletes, kids can be designated as older than they are. Yang Yun, a Chinese gymnast who was listed as 16 when she won double bronzes at Sydney, later went on Chinese television and said she had been 14 when she competed...
...quirky as to what's going to work and what's not." And though, as one of the top-selling fiction authors of all time, King doesn't have to worry about selling books in large numbers, he is less certain that his loyal (and undeniably older) readers will take to a video comic book from him. "In a pop-cult sense, I'm over," he says matter-of-factly. "But take someone like Stephenie Meyer. The kids love her, and they spend huge amounts of time on the Web. If she were to pull out a vignette from those...
Drug companies say the visits keep doctors educated about important new trends. But harried doctors are often persuaded to prescribe expensive new drugs, even though older drugs or generics would be just as effective. A Harvard model projects that every dollar spent on better information would yield $2 in drug savings. That's a big deal to cash-strapped states that pay a large chunk of Medicaid patients' drug costs. Thus SCORxE - South Carolina Offering Prescribing Excellence - a joint program between the state's Medicaid program and the South Carolina College of Pharmacy, which trains its pharmacist-reps to visit...
...older men in the group of would-be recruits sit in a row on a bench smoking cigarettes. Some carry plastic red-white-and-blue-striped rice bags. The few recruiters who agree to be interviewed tell similar stories. They accuse the American and Western press of lying about the events in Georgia. No one believes that the Russians have invaded Georgia and that Tbilisi and other cities have been bombed. Because the Russian press has not reported it, they say, it cannot be true. A rumor widely circulated is that black soldiers have been spotted fighting on the Georgian...