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...Spinal problems such as "slipped" disks do not necessarily cause pain or require surgery, according to new research. The finding suggests that some doctors who detect mild abnormalities may be too quick to perform back operations...
...Nation. The show, which features four correspondents in addition to Moore, covers topics ranging from AIDS profiteering to pets on Prozac. In one of the series' typical segments, Moore stands outside the offices of various corporate chiefs and uses a megaphone to ask them to come down and perform simple tasks their employees carry out every day. Louis Gerstner of IBM is challenged to format a computer disk; he doesn't respond. But Ford's Alex Trotman does agree to change the oil in a jeep. After he completes the chore, Moore, referring to a Ford slogan, asks...
...trivia buffs, here they are: "NICU," "Gumbo," "Tube," "Funky Bitch," "Frankenstein," "Letter to Jimmy page" and two weeks before the Great Woods run, "Gamehenge"). At the same time, songs from Hoist were beginning to find a home in the live setting and were no longer a chore to perform. At last the band was back on track...
...first performance held in the newly-renovated hall was last Thursday's production of "Halos in Reverse" by the Demetirys Klein Dance Company, in residence at the Harvard Summer Dance Center. Last night, the building saw its first concert in many years--people gathered outside ahead of time to see the Harvard Chamber Orchestra perform Bach, Bartok, Handel and Stravinsky...
...Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski was indicted on 17 federal counts for having allegedly engaged in a broad 20-year pattern of corruption. Among the charges: tampering with a grand-jury witness and embezzling more than $500,000 in public funds to pay office workers hired mainly to perform personal services. The indictment forced him to relinquish his pivotal chairmanship to Florida's Sam Gibbons as a result of House Democratic Party rules...