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...Secularists Rail Against Superstition" (News, November 13): Harvard Secular Society public relations director Christopher M. Kirchhoff states that "the Bible says that Jesus was crucified on the 13th, the temple of Solomon was destroyed on the 13th and Eve gave Adam the apple on the 13th." But the Bible says nothing of the sort. The text of Genesis is conspicuously silent on the date of this transaction with respect to Creation or any other benchmark--though one suspects that such reticence should not be a matter of great concern in light of the moral significance of this episode...
...particularly good start. But when the two were thrown together to salvage the doomed nomination of Henry Foster for Surgeon General ("It was pretty well screwed up by then," Bowles says), Bowles noticed something about the prickly, rail-thin Podesta. "Every time this guy said something, it was acerbic, but it was always on target," Bowles told TIME. Both of them eventually left the White House to do other work, and both returned--but this time Bowles had recruited Podesta back to be his deputy. And when Bowles was ready to leave as chief of staff...
...value of the Frito-Lay aid package at more than $10 million. And that is in addition to $104.7 million in industrial-development revenue bonds issued by the city of Jonesboro to build and equip the potato-chip plant. The other incentives include the 140-acre plant site, a rail spur, road improvements, a construction grant, tax credits for new employees and a 20% discount on sewer bills for the next 15 years. That sewage-treatment plant, by the way, cost $7 million and is large enough to accommodate a second city the size of Jonesboro...
...pierce some of that denial by listening to how someone you are concerned about talks about her body. Does she moan about her fat behind even though she's rail thin? Is she hiding under baggy clothes? Has her energy level dropped so low that she's sleeping all the time? Doctors suspect anorexia when a woman weighs 15% below normal and hasn't menstruated for at least three months. But there are more subtle signs as well: the growth of baby-fine hair (as the shrinking body tries to keep warm), brittle nails, swollen joints. Bulimics may develop...
...Republicans had expected. The party's base of conservative voters is "15 times more likely to vote" because of the scandal, but they would have voted anyway. Many Republicans who need moderates to win are not using the scandal explicitly in their campaigns; some even consider it a third rail. "It would backfire if we used it," says Cynthia Bergman, spokeswoman for Oregon House hopeful Molly Bordonaro. "Voters would view it as negative campaigning." In Mississippi's racially divided Fourth District, Republican Delbert Hosemann first withheld judgment of Clinton, then switched course, calling for resignation and demanding his opponent...