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...going to wear a suit, I will always wear one of my designs: a single-breasted, one-button, peak-lapel suit with some slightly hipster, low-waist pants...
...source of the problem, a team of nurses conducted a study at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. The nurses placed noise dosimeters in patient rooms, and two volunteered to sleep over and note bothersome sounds in a thoracic-surgery unit packed with humming equipment and monitors. Peak dosimeter readings as high as 113 decibels--roughly equivalent to the din of a chain saw or jackhammer--came during the 7 a.m. staff changeover, and the 11 p.m. changeover was also quite noisy. By adopting remedial measures--some as simple as closing doors to patients' rooms and replacing clanking paper-towel...
...months, some starving to death as tumors block their mouth or throat. Autopsies on other devils have found their internal organs riddled with tumors. The disease, confined so far to the state?s eastern half, is believed to have cut the animals? population to about 70,000 from a peak of 150,000 in the early 1990s...
...Dean campaign office has moved two blocks south and two blocks west of its usual center of operations. These Dems, spending their off-peak weekend mobile minutes on phonebanking, can bring the cause with them wherever they...
...period, an average dividend yield of 3% was considered abysmally low. But with tech stocks in favor and aggressive CEOs reinvesting for earnings growth, the number of companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 that paid a dividend sank to just 351 at the end of 2002 from a peak of 469. This decline reversed last year. An improving economy and a new law that taxes stock dividends at the lower capital gains rate (rather than as ordinary income) prodded a wave of companies to initiate payouts. Dividend payers in the S&P now number 370, and the average yield...