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...humans by determining the lowest level that is harmful to lab animals and then reducing that amount by a series of extrapolating factors. Chemical manufacturers have complained loudly that these standards are largely arbitrary. It was in order to establish more realistic levels that they began launching a slew of clinical trials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poisoning For Dollars | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

...before I get a slew of angry e-mails from Capitol Hill, let me explain what I mean. Your congressmen and senators are working hard. In fact, they put in incredibly long hours that often stretch into the weekends. It's just that most of their work at the moment is on their own behalf - not yours. Congressional elections are still seven months away, when one-third of the Senate and the entire House of Representatives will face voters, but already incumbents and challengers are campaigning with gusto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Legislating? Who's Got Time? | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

...horror flick of the Stephen King pulp fiction ilk. A man claiming to be Fenton Meiks (Matthew McConaughey) emerges at a Texas FBI bureau from out of nowhere claiming that he knows the identity of the God’s Hand murderer, a serial killer who has slain a slew of victims all over Texas. The improbable reason? The killer is his younger brother, and to prove it, he is going to explain how the current situation came about. So, we flash back to 1979, back to Fenton’s childhood where we see that his father (Paxton) directly...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Daddy Dearest: Paxton Scares in ‘Frailty’ | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

Menick’s hiring is part of a slew of coaching changes made by the Fordham football program. Rams Head coach Dave Clawson hired or promoted six assistant coaches yesterday...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Menick Named Assistant Line Coach at Fordham | 4/10/2002 | See Source »

Like its namesake, Seabiscuit has been a prolific sire: its success has bred a Seattle Slew of horse books. If you have read the story of Seabiscuit's unlikely rise, you will appreciate the utter foolhardiness of James Squires, who, when he lost his job as the editor of the Chicago Tribune, blew his golden parachute on a tiny horse farm in the green heart of Kentucky. In Horse of a Different Color (PublicAffairs; 320 pages; $26), Squires tells the story of how, as a relative amateur, he bred an undersize gray foal who made his way through the maze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Horse Power | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

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