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...Ceaser said Buchanan's chances at defeating Clinton in November are slim, because the religious right is not a broad enough base of support for a presidential candidate...

Author: By Kathryn M. Meneely, | Title: Republican Field Trimmed in Iowa | 2/14/1996 | See Source »

Researchers have developed a blood test to measure leptin, a hormone that tells the brain to stop eating. Doctors hope to help people slim down by boosting their leptin levels; with the new test, they can pinpoint those who need a leptin lift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook, Feb. 12, 1996 | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

Although Reeves' chances of election seem slim and the Cambridge Chronicle reports that six councillors have said they will not vote for him, Reeves is not giving up just...

Author: By Abby Y. Fung, | Title: Standoff Continues in Mayoral Race | 1/31/1996 | See Source »

Lawrence launches into a first-rate description of his anticrime efforts, but the ceo of this organization--a slim, well-tended man who wears his reading glasses slung low on an impressive nose--barely looks up from his papers. Police Commissioner William Bratton designed these Comstat (short for computer statistics) meetings as a way to make his 76 far-flung precinct commanders--and 38,000 cops--accountable for the crime rate. Nobody had ever done it before, and it's working: total felonies in New York City are down 27% in just two years, to levels not seen since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONE GOOD APPLE | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

...name Vanessa-Mae (full name: Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson) has a new album, The Violin Player, climbing up the worldwide pop charts on the strength of her disco-driven version of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. A photo on the single from the album features the slim, pretty teen fiddling away while standing in the Mediterranean in a soaking-wet see-through white shift. "If as a result of this, people see the violin as a fresh, trendy, up-to-date instrument, that's fine with me," says Vanessa-Mae, whose avowed goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: SEDUCTIVE STRINGS | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

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