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...same time, the media aren't getting a lot of sympathy from the public. The media are considered quick to use their power to threaten re-putations and prone to taking bribes from sources. What's more, media owners have avoided tax probes in the past by threatening to write embarrassing stories about tax officials, says opposition lawmaker Lee Bu Young, a former journalist...
START SLOW Warming up before exercise not only averts muscle injury but may also help prevent migraines. After 30 sec. of sudden, intense exercise, nitric oxide production--at high levels believed to trigger the crushing headaches--increased significantly in women prone to migraines, and more than half of them went on to develop one. Experts say warm-ups could help sufferers get back...
...character education. His motivation, of course, is not to replicate schools like mine but rather to placate social conservatives skeptical of the rest of his education plan, and, less cynically, to help schools navigate this new world of Columbine, Conyers, Jonesboro and Santee, where kids seem crueler and more prone to violence than ever before. Just this week three girls from Boonville, California - two 8 year-olds and one 9 year-old - were charged with attempted murder for allegedly sneaking pellets of gopher poison into the lunch sandwich of a classmate. They said they did it simply because they didn...
...short, it's not easy to generalize about Falun Gong's devotees in the U.S. Just when you think that they are all overeducated and prone to quirky intellectualizing (and many are), a practitioner with seriously calloused hands tells you he earns a living pressure-washing decks. Before discovering the texts of Falun Gong, he assures you, reading books was not his thing...
...clear that any of his activities are illegal. That was the conclusion of a high-level Justice Department meeting late last year involving Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, independent counsel Robert Ray, and top FBI officials, sources told TIME. They'd been investigating various allegations about the trouble-prone half brother, but concluded that there wasn't enough evidence to proceed. Justice Department officials told the FBI to feel free to present new material if it turned...