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...loads which allow little time for that all-important workout. These factors pose real threats for students who lack wills strong enough to resist such pervasive temptation and to actively overcome the effects of excessive consumption. We must learn to recognize and solve these problems, since they will certainly persist throughout our lives...
Yesterday's Wall Street Journal reported that "Heymann objected to having White House lawyers sit in on staff interviews by Justice Department investigators following Vincent Foster's suicide" and "raised hell" with White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum about the lawyer's presence. So questions persist...
Blue-Chip Layoffs Persist...
...steam, the Rockies boom has its pitfalls and built-in limitations. For one thing, it cannot go on forever in the continued absence of a general economic recovery. "The longer the national doldrums persist, the more susceptible we'll be," says Behrmann. "We're not an island. We may be a refuge. We can weather the storm. But we're not immune." For another, the region's scarcity of water poses as much of a challenge as it always has. The northern tier of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, with plentiful rivers and low population density, expects no problem satisfying...
...volcano cause the ancient drought? "That's unlikely," Weiss says. "Volcanos are not known to generate climatic changes of this duration or intensity." So, with one mystery solved, researchers find themselves trying to explain how a drought can persist for three centuries. At least one thing seems certain. The ancient Mesopotamians did not cause the heavens to dry up. That raises the ominous possibility that it could happen again. And that modern humanity, by dumping pollutants into the atmosphere, is tinkering with a climatic system more complex and random than humans have realized...