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...take Senator Joe Biden's comments at an AARP forum on September 21 after Governor Bill Richardson touted his gubernatorial experience: "God love him," Biden quipped. "But that's like saying 'I played halfback when I was in high school; I can play in the pros...
...quarter is traditionally a slow one, because it includes vacation months when donors, like everyone else, are less likely to be thinking about politics. The campaigns are beginning to leak out some information about themselves, and fueling expectations about their opponents'. But the real thing to watch, say political pros, is not the headline-generating numbers that show how much they are bringing in. "The single most important figure that people are going to be looking at is cash on hand, the disposable amount of money that will be available to be spent in the next 90 days," says former...
What could be seen as child's play is in fact a proving ground for the pros. The current leader in the Formula One drivers' championship, rookie Lewis Hamilton, 22, first picked up speed piloting karts as an 8-year-old. And he's not alone, even on his Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team. Hamilton's teammate and rival at McLaren, current world champion Fernando Alonso, started out racing the mini machines too. In fact, almost all of today's Formula One drivers, as well as past greats like Brazilian Ayrton Senna and Germany's Michael Schumacher, owe a debt...
...best. We study the engineering, the metallurgy, the tribology (friction science) - and the body's responses to these things from the gross anatomic level down to the subcellular, ultramicroscopic scale. We digest hundreds of studies about the clinical science and spend hundreds of hours in conferences hashing over the pros and cons. Then we do the operations and we live with the results for the rest of our lives; they are the swords by which we live or die. So, should a two-minute TV commercial or a random website that sways the patient sway the orthopedic surgeon...
...often happens, however, the parents turned out to be a step ahead of the pros. A carefully designed study published in the British journal the Lancet shows that a variety of common food dyes and the preservative sodium benzoate--an ingredient in many soft drinks, fruit juices and salad dressings--do cause some kids to become measurably more hyperactive and distractible. The findings prompted Britain's Food Standards Agency to issue an immediate advisory to parents to limit their children's intake of additives if they notice an effect on behavior. In the U.S., there hasn't been a similar...