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...help improve Loker, is to be trusted--the prospects of a bar in the Commons are in the hands of students. "The University has to be careful about the health and safety of the students," she cautioned, "but like everything else at Loker, if we find a ground swell of public opinion, an issue can be reconsidered." If only we believed the enthusiasm of students for activism to be equal to their enthusiasm for alcohol...
...doctors were very attentive while I was there. They checked up on me pretty often," says Sauer, who ended up staying at UHS overnight after doctors expressed concern that his knee might continue to swell and stop circulation...
...University has to be careful about the health and safety of the students," Kouril said. "But, like everything else at Loker, if we find a group swell of public opinion, an issue can be reconsidered...
...brain stem, a primitive region that controls vital functions like heartbeat and breathing, has completed its wiring. Elsewhere the connections between neurons are wispy and weak. But over the first few months of life, the brain's higher centers explode with new synapses. And as dendrites and axons swell with buds and branches like trees in spring, metabolism soars. By the age of two, a child's brain contains twice as many synapses and consumes twice as much energy as the brain of a normal adult...
...truth, the growth is just getting started. Employment at Universal Studios will swell from 5,600 to 20,000 by 2001 as the company adds everything from superhero theme-park attractions to a 16-screen theater complex and dance clubs, hotels and restaurants. Disney is building six new attractions, including a cruise line and Disney's Animal Kingdom, and 8,000 jobs to run them. Many of those slots have a future: Al Weiss, the president of Disney's Florida Park complex, started as a part-timer who closed out cash registers at the Magic Kingdom...