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...really looking forward to the year 2005. That's when a large clinical trial called the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) should finally answer the question "Do the benefits of taking estrogen and progestin for years, even decades, after menopause outweigh any risks?" There has been lots of evidence over the years that the answer is yes and yet plenty of data that lean toward no. Just last week a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association said that taking estrogen for 10 years or more doubles a woman's risk of dying from ovarian cancer...
...committee must release both the "long" and "short" lists in each presidential search to allow for open discussion of the candidates. We recognize the desires of candidates to conceal their interest from their current employers and to avoid the embarrassment of not being chosen. But these concerns do not outweigh the University's need for substantive debate among students, faculty, staff and alumni. A public discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of each candidate could only assist the search committee in its decision...
...high social costs of gambling outweigh the benefits of the fun of casinos, then progressive activists, Christians and all people with consciences should work together to eliminate it. If not, then maybe we should follow Kovner's suggestion to buy a Megabucks lottery ticket today...
...years on the Texas Supreme Court and has a thin paper trail; and Emilio Garza, a federal appellate judge in Texas who is further to the right--and volubly opposes Roe. Republicans hope that a Hispanic pick would tie Democrats in knots, although for some Senators, antiabortion views would outweigh diversity. Naming a woman in O'Connor's place would be a similar tactic. Edith Jones, another quite conservative federal judge in Texas, has been on the G.O.P. list for years. A less well-known option: Janice Brown, a California Supreme Court judge who is African American...
...breadth of Stieglitz's mind, the energy of his passions and his unerring sense of radical beauty outweigh any quibbles. He was a hero, and one can only be grateful to the National Gallery for showing him at full scale and in such rich detail...