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...Souter keeps to his original promise. Heshies away from making any judgements, leavingthat task instead to the realm of empiricism...
...University has not fared so well in the financial realm during recent years, and questions about the propriety of Harvard's involvement in LBOs, which analysts and some in Congress have criticized for hurting the economy, have lingered...
Some unsuccessful dieters may find vindication in these findings. "The results take obesity out of being a moral problem -- that obese people have a lack of willpower -- and put it more in the realm of metabolism," observes Dr. Theodore VanItallie of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. But this evidence could also lead to despair. If people are born to be fat, are attempts to slim down doomed? No, say weight specialists. Low-fat diets and exercise can help offset heredity. People may inherit a propensity to obesity, but it need not be their destiny...
...small countries on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, strategically placed at the mouth of the Red Sea, were reunited last week after more than 400 years. Once the Queen of Sheba's realm, Yemen has been divided since the 16th century, when first the Ottoman Turks and later the British colonized the southern territory around the port of Aden...
...least of all, our care of the realm currently specified by Senator Al Gore. "The environment has become a question of national security," says Gore. Indeed, environmental threats are the most analogous to military ones, and it's easy enough to stretch national security's original intent in this direction. "Environmental refugees" fleeing from homelands ! made barren by shattered ecosystems are poignantly reminiscent of fugitives from the plains of war. Social instability, breeder of violence, is a spreading by-product of desertification and deforestation in lands as far apart as the Philippines and Egypt...