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...study comes as many universities, including Harvard, are tightening their student alcohol policies in the face of increasingly strict federal and local legislation. The new laws, which have taken effect this year, tie federal education funding to the school's enforcement of state and local drinking laws...
Pressures to curtail the rights of women come from various puritanical sects within Islam. "They want to impose a new social order by force," says Khalida Messaoudi, president of an Algerian women's organization. "They start by attacking women because women are the weakest link in these societies." Particularly strict is the Wahhabiyah, a movement founded in the 18th century that counts among its adherents many Afghans and the Saudi ruling family. Wahhabi women live behind the veil, are forbidden to drive, and may travel only if accompanied by a husband or a male blood relative. The demands...
...disease: stress and an individual's "sense of isolation." His trial was small, involving only 41 San Francisco Bay area men with heart disease. The 19 participants in his control group were to follow their doctors' recommendations; for the 22 others in the experimental group, however, he ordered a strict, exacting regimen...
...drive to promote the Japanese-inspired team concept at its plants has often been greeted with suspicion, if not outright hostility, and many line workers cling resolutely to the Old World: a rigid, adversarial system characterized by strict seniority rules and a crippling multiplicity of job classifications. The result is a patchwork of different systems among GM plants, many of which are light-years behind the highly efficient Buick City factory in Flint, Mich., where the Buick LeSabre is produced. Overall, GM has made virtually no gains in productivity and remains the highest-cost automaker in the U.S. In fact...
...with many religions, my sect of baseball worship has a strict philosophy: there are some basic rules, there's good, and there's evil...