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...iron as a way to boost my burn rate, I was skeptical (Arnold Schwarzenegger leaped to mind) but curious. After all, the number of women using free weights has doubled, from 7.4 million in 1987 to 16.8 million in 1997. Surely they're not all training for the Ms. Olympia contest...
With all the debate about whether health insurers will pay for Viagra, it's easy to forget that many women aren't even covered for the Pill. Now Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine is pushing a bill that would require large plans that cover drugs to pay for all prescription forms of birth control. About half of all plans, including Kaiser Permanente and Prudential, now cover some form of protection, from the Pill to diaphragms and IUDs...
...Miller helped Harvard end the game on a 9-2 run and oust the Cardinal from the post-season. The run began when, after a missed shot by Feaster, Stanford sophomore point guard Milena Flores grabbed the rebound and fired a pass upcourt to Honorable Mention AP All-American Olympia Scott, who would have had an uncontested lay-up at the other end that would have put Stanford ahead by five...
...Army will have a much tougher time punishing Hale now that he has retired. Responding to a written inquiry from Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, Army Colonel Scott Black recently wrote that "although retired soldiers remain subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, they are only prosecuted by courts-martial when extraordinary circumstances are present." And senior Pentagon officials say it will be much harder to reduce Hale's rank, and consequently his pension, even if Carpino's charges are substantiated. "Once he's retired, the burden of proof shifts from him to the Army," says Korb, the former...
...weapons with an American label slapped on them. The U.S. company then bills the customer at a marked-up price and pockets the profit. Customs agents also suspect that many distributors simply file phony export-declaration forms and ship directly to problem countries. Last December, Yuri I. Montgomery, an Olympia, Wash., exporter, was indicted on charges of sending South Korean-made stun guns called Thunder Woman and Thunder Blaster to Macedonia in 1992 without Commerce Department approval. Customs agents are now investigating whether the weapons were reshipped from Macedonia to neighboring Kosovo, where ethnic Albanians have been tortured. The cases...