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...going to speculate or predict anything [about the future]," said Joseph G. Wrinn Jr., director of the Harvard News Office. "We're happy with what's happened today...
...work on the common cold, which is what half of "flu" sufferers really have. Even at that, the compound works best during the first 48 hours of infection--before most people even begin experiencing those running noses and raging fevers. That is why the scientists at Gilead predict that it will be better at keeping you from getting your neighbor's flu than treating your...
Government policy in any number of areas--health care, taxes, the economy, crime--touches children. But the initiative that will have the most particular and powerful effect on them is welfare reform. If, as some predict, the incomes of poor mothers are drastically reduced as a result of the new system, children will be harmed. But let's assume that the reforms work as intended and mothers get jobs that pay them more than paupers' wages. What effect may the changes have on childhood development...
...other monsters of the unconscious are flitting, is clearly derived from the frontispiece to Tiepolo's Scherzi di Fantasia, a gravestone infested with owls. The terrible figure of the red-capped torturer looming behind the mutilated saint in Tiepolo's Martyrdom of Saint Agatha, c. 1755, seems to predict the primal energy of Goya's giants...
...always difficult to predict what the Supreme Court will do, and almost everyone agrees this is a close case. (The two federal courts to hear it so far have split, with Clinton winning at the trial level and Jones on appeal.) But there are good reasons to believe that the court may be reluctant to allow Jones' suit to go forward. The Supreme Court generally treads lightly in "separation of powers" cases, where one of the three branches of government is being subjected to the dictates of another. If Jones won, the President would in theory have to answer...