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...there you have it. "Yankees Suck," is, unfortunately, not a statement of fact. It's a state of mind. A form of identity. Whether or not the Yankees and Red Sox are bad or good, whether they win or lose, is immaterial...
...Jeffrey Curley Bill, recommended for consideration by the whole House by the Joint Committee on Public Safety earlier this year, would require these "rules" to be posted in schools and parks across the state...
HATS OFF! It's only a first step, but scientists may be a hair closer to a cure for baldness. Using injections of a gene--nicknamed the Sonic hedgehog--they have been able to awaken hair follicles from a resting state and force them into an active one. Alas, that's just in mice. Whether the therapy works on human pates remains to be seen. One potential problem: the Sonic hedgehog gene is linked to basal-cell carcinoma, a common, treatable skin cancer...
PARTS IS PARTS? In the wake of last week's verdicts against State Farm, totaling $1.2 billion, the insurance company is temporarily suspending its policy of requiring body shops to repair cars by using generic bumpers, hoods and fenders. The no-names are cheaper but could end up costing more down the road. When Consumer Reports conducted 5-m.p.h. crash tests on a Taurus, the Ford-made bumper suffered minor damage that cost $235 to repair. A generic bumper shattered, causing $1,350 in damages. Until last week, State Farm made consumers pay the difference if they insisted on using...
...such as accusations of youthful cocaine use ? refused to stick to him as he glided through the early stages of the Republican presidential nomination process. He even seemed to have a good shot at winning New York, a Democratic stronghold, and two weeks ago, in a tour of the state's minority neighborhoods, Bush was introduced at speaking engagements by Floyd Flake, a leading black Democrat. Bush also received a big boost earlier this month when New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Governor George Pataki, two Republicans with a sporadically contentious relationship, stood together in supporting his candidacy...