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...mark of the biggest traumas is that they reach down to the smallest levels. On the morning after Election Day, the 8-year-old son of a defeated Democratic Congressman walked slowly into his third-grade classroom at Horace Mann School in Washington and announced sadly, "My dad lost." The boy was worried that he might have to move, and his teacher tried to console him. "He's too little to understand the full implications," says principal Sheila Ford. "But he knows enough that it's been real hard...
...reporters emphasized the uncertainties inherent in the abortion study -- and in most other scientific research. The paper asserted that having an abortion raised a woman's risk of contracting breast cancer 50% on average. But, as an editorial in the NCI Journal points out, that is just about the smallest risk such a study can detect. (By contrast, a heavy smoker faces a 3000% jump in the odds of developing lung cancer.) Nonetheless, antiabortion groups suspected that the media's caution reflected a pro-choice bias. "Even if you want to say the study is inconclusive, I think women have...
...largest expense Reeves incurred in November, according to the statement, was a $299.80 charge for an October 14 reception at Rebecca's Cafe in Boston, for Cambridge elementary-school principals. The smallest was for $32.30 at the Ritz Carlton Boston hotel, made November 7, for a meeting of Men of Color Against AIDS (MOCCA...
Michael Huffington campaigns sparingly, and he prefers sterile, controlled environments. On this bright September morning, the G.O.P. Senate candidate is visiting the neonatal unit of the Long Beach Community Hospital. He makes the smallest of small talk, marveling at how big the monitors are and how tiny the babies. Well over 6 ft. tall and thin as his pinstripes, with a smile that never seems to reach his eyes, Huffington manages to escape without having a real conversation with anyone. At his next and last stop, he thanks volunteers and ticks off his reasons for trying to wrest away...
...German businessman who had been arrested for counterfeiting. That was followed in June by recovery of less than a gram of highly enriched uranium -- probably fuel from a nuclear-powered submarine -- in Landshut. Even if all + this smuggled booty were put together, there would not be enough for the smallest and crudest atom bomb, which in the hands of inexperienced makers would take about 8 kg of plutonium...