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Not much in this society slows for our distant dilemmas. Last week the nation's debt hit $3,214,5l2,688,472.82, a burden so huge that if reduced to the weight of dollar bills, it would tip the scales at more than 3 million tons. Sixty million students went...
One contestant looked like a horseshoe. Another resembled a giant pizza box with a bubble on the top. Others were shaped like teardrops, pea pods, torpedoes or pyramids. All were festooned with dark glassy cells that shimmered like fish scales in the sun as the vehicles purred, rather than roared...
It has long been clear that people's weight is determined by a balance of heredity and life-style. But which exerts the heavier effect? Two reports in last week's New England Journal of Medicine tip the scales firmly toward genetic makeup.
In the apartment, police found precision scales, syringes, vials, $1500 in cash and what appeared to be LSD and marijuana, according to an affidavit filed by the officers.
Asian students are attacked for the opposite reason -- for "curve busting" on grade scales and raising the level of competition for jobs in such fields as math, science and engineering. "I hear Asian jokes a lot," says a junior at the University of Illinois. "You're going to get out...