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...return of Gephardt, who becomes the senior congressional Democrat with Speaker Tom Foley's re-election defeat, puts his party in the same combative position the GOP has been in for most of the last 40 years. "Gephardt is considered very partisan," she says, "and they sent a signal they want to stick with a fighting Democrat. They're digging in for war." BTW: Gephardt's day wasn't entirely painless. He came to the Capitol for the vote from a hospital where he was preparing for gall bladder surgery. He returned immediately after his victory.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin...
...writer Christine Gormansays the discovery, through "top-drawer" research, is the first hard evidence to support a decades-old hypothesis that a "feedback loop" between body and brain regulates weight. In the case of many obese people, she says, the new findings suggest a protein is sending the wrong signal, resulting in lower metabolism and excessive hunger. "The implications for the moment are more psychological than medical or therapeutic," Gorman says. "We don't know how many of the obese people out there have this defect. But this does make the point they are fighting their own genetics."Post your...
...that you cannot know a subatomic particle's exact position and its exact direction and velocity at the same time. To transport people you have to know all those things, so the Heisenberg compensator was devised to overcome that problem. It's an attempt by the Trek writers to signal that they are at least aware of the issue. And how does the Heisenberg compensator work? "It works very well, thank you," says Okuda...
...editorial board is correct in pointing out that such a comment is "an ambiguous statement that could signal several different directions." Instead of merely assuming that ESAC is plunging into militant activism at the expense of "rational debate," the editorial board should have considered what Chong meant by "a different approach." In fact, she was alluding to the quiet activism of the Academic Affairs Committee, a committee which has collected ethnic studies syllabi from other universities and submitted them to the dean of undergraduate education...
...first shot at running the House of Representatives since 1954. The shift is expected to produce a series of political tremors for the next two years as the Speaker's chair is transferred to the often corrosively partisan Newt Gingrich. The Speaker-in-waiting sent only a limited peace signal to the Clinton Administration -- "Cooperation, yes; compromise, no," -- and wasted little time in blasting "counterculture McGovernicks" and "left-wing elitists" at the White House. Among the Democratic war-horses sent out to pasture by the electorate: Illinois' Dan Rostenkowski, Texas' Jack Brooks and Washington's Tom Foley, the current Speaker...