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...Instead, I’ll end with a final don’t that irks me most of all: the botched make-over. Correct me if I’m wrong, but make-overs are supposedto make the person being transformed better than they were at the outset. I feel like some stylists forget this important fact all too often. They take a nice looking, mild manored “do” and turn her into a tragic caricature of a “don’t” in less time than it takes me to flip...
Recalling the outset of their research on CFCs in the 1970s, Molina said he and his colleagues did not expect to discover such a major connection between CFCs and atmospheric damage...
...outset of Fox's Celebrity Boxing Wednesday night, announcer Michael Buffer stood proudly in the middle of the ring and intoned with a straight face, "Ladies and gentlemen, please rise as we honor America..." To which America, collectively, replied: Uh, "honor...
Then came the disaster that was last season. Something was wrong with the team chemistry from the outset, and feelings of helplessness, disgust and blame defined the locker-room atmosphere. Everything culminated in a meltdown against Central Connecticut, after which the team, watching the tape, felt it was wasting its time and energy...
...from Johns Hopkins University of 1,318 marijuana users over a 15-year period revealed no significant difference in cognitive decline between heavy users, light users and non-users. While marijuana users as a group scored more poorly than non-users on a battery of cognitive tests at the outset of another study, after 27 days of non-use the test scores of the two groups were indistinguishable. Granted, the ability to learn and recall new information is impaired while high, but the effects are neither long term nor irreversible. The myth that marijuana kills brain cells is as patently...