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A new device could greatly simplify the surgery required to deal with aneurysm, according to a research team at Stanford University. An aneurysm -- a ballooning of a weakened artery -- frequently occurs on the aorta, the critical vessel which carries blood from the heart. Developing painlessly and often undetected, aneurysms can...
Another commercial follows the path of McDonald's food as it travels through the air vents in an apartment building, all of whose occupants are Black. Unlike many of the white-casted commercials in the series, this and other all-Black ads stress value as a reason to come to...
The White House found itself in a familiar place today: on the defensive, denying that Clinton intends to support tax hikes or cuts in entitlement benefits -- as Republicans interpreted an Administration memo leaked Sunday to the Washington Post. The memo, prepared by OMB Director Alice Rivlin, listed revenue-raising options...
Roiphe's main thesis is that many contemporary feminists actually undermine their own cause of women's liberation with alarmist proclamations of a "date rape crisis." Their exaggeration of the incidence of date rape reinforces old stereotypes of women as victims, powerless before male aggression. These are the same stereotypes...
The Justice Department has refused to accept the report's key findings. Defenders of DARE question R.T.I.'s analysis of data, saying fifth- and sixth- graders rarely use drugs and were therefore the wrong sample to study. "It was too strong a statement," says William DeJong, a lecturer at the...