Word: throwing
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...changed its time frame for a possible invasion in late September or early October. "Plainly an orchestration campaign is now under way," he says. And the White House's hair-trigger statements? "I suppose that's just smart. The sense you get now is maybe they want to throw people off, so that when they're expected to zig, they...
...lives in San Francisco. "First I went to margarine. But then I found out that margarine wasn't so great, and I went back to butter. I must have changed my diet six times. What I do is study what the experts say, think about it and just throw up my hands...
...Summers has reason to throw up his hands again. The latest dispatch from the front lines of America's losing fight against fat -- one sure to fluster consumers as they frantically scan the nutritional labels on supermarket shelves -- comes from the Boston University Medical Center. Not only do some fats appear to be less harmful than others, say Dr. Edward Siguel and his colleague Dr. Robert Lerman, but diets deficient in "good" fats may actually be dangerous to human health. Backing up this startling assertion is a study Siguel and Lerman published in the journal Metabolism. In 47 patients with...
Such disputes could doom the bill and throw the most contentious issues back to regulators and the courts. But any talk of a defeated bill alarms Reed Hundt, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, who argues that the creaky regulations now in effect threaten to delay the arrival of two-way TV. Says he: "It would be a huge mistake to underestimate the current barriers to competition...
...brain. But in the dyslexia cases, notes team member Glenn Rosen, a Harvard neuroscientist, "we found that the size of the neurons is smaller in the left hemisphere than it is in the right hemisphere." The size differential is only 10% to 15%, but that may be enough to throw off the brain's timing and disrupt its crucial word-processing skills...