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...Dukakis' support here in Massachusetts was not as solid as he expected. In a recent poll of likely Massachusetts voters done by KRC Research of Cambridge for the Boston Herald and WBZ-TV, Dukakis led Vice-President Bush by a mere 43 percent to 39 percent--well within the five point margin of error. Eighteen percent of the poll respondents were undecided...
...Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures national inflation for a breadbasket of consumer goods, is inappropriate. Instead, they say, the tuition hikes should be measured against the Higher Education Price Index (HEPI), which guages increases in university expenses. The annual index is calculated by an non-profit research firm...
Others are just as vague. Should the station be a research and manufacturing facility for performing microgravity experiments and making substances not possible on earth? An assembly platform for the large craft needed to carry humans to Mars? A combination of both? In fact, a station is not needed for former astronaut Sally Ride's "Mission to Planet Earth," a proposal to study the earth's environment and atmosphere from satellites. And some argue that it may not even be needed for another major space project: a permanent manned base on the moon...
...degree possible with natural levels of testosterone. Or so it is thought. Their actual value is hotly disputed, in part because there are few large-scale studies. Athletes take the steroids in doses much larger than those used for therapeutic purposes, and doctors have been reluctant to conduct research that would in any way condone a practice they consider unhealthy. Athletes have fewer doubts. Dr. Forest Tennant, a California researcher, estimated in the New England Journal of Medicine that "as many as 1 million athletes" in the U.S. alone are using anabolic steroids. Sprinters like Johnson, who rely on large...
...CHIEF OF RESEARCH: Betty Satterwhite Sutter...