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When University of Kentucky epidemiologist David Snowdon makes an important discovery, he doesn't break the news at a scientific meeting or even in a peer-reviewed journal. First he tells the School Sisters of Notre Dame, a group of Roman Catholic nuns who have given their bodies--and, after death, their brains--to help Snowdon study the slow mental wasting known as Alzheimer's disease...
...ever read this column over the past two years, you know that I haven't had trouble finding things to complain about. From peer pressure to drink underage to the demise of the power ballad, from impeachment-obsessed Republicans to single-ply toilet paper, I've tried to shed some light on our problems and hopefully spur people to action for the better...
...original eight demands submitted inFebruary, the coalition demanded a women's centerwith administrative offices, a health-care clinic,peer counseling groups and a 24-hour rape crisiscenter...
...confab's main product, determined in advance by White House staffers, is the kickoff of a new surgeon general's study of violence in America. Building on similar studies done in 1972 and 1985, it will take a look at the roles of popular culture, peer pressure, mental illness and the availability of guns in teen shootings, and doubtless won't be completed until the issue (and this President) have long since moved on. President Clinton and his aspiring veep are caught between defenders of the First Amendment (the Hollywood types who donate to the Democrats) and those...
Expansion of the area peer-advising program. Emphasizing how it can better serve a diverse student population...