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Women who have been forcing themselves to exercise regularly to get into shape and lose unwanted pounds may find that the benefits of their athletic pursuits extend beyond a trim look. Past research has determined that exercise may lead to a decreased chance of breast and reproductive tract cancer in women, and four Harvard researchers now hope to discover the biological basis for this reduced risk...
...building more weapons systems than are necessary to ensure the national defense. Troop levels could be trimmed, especially if the U.S. insists that its allies share more of the burden of defending the free world. Defense specialists in Congress and the Administration can choose from among several possible cuts: reduce the size of the aircraft-carrier fleet from 15 to twelve and cancel two planned carriers before construction begins (a saving of $3.5 billion in 1992); cancel the Stealth bomber ($7 billion); kill the C- 17 transport plane ($2.3 billion); freeze annual spending on the Strategic Defense Initiative...
Vagelos proves that corporate leaders can be straight shooters who are persuasive without being abrasive. To be sure, the trim, five-mile-a-day jogger, one of the few chief executives in the drug business with an M.D. degree (and a mere two weeks of business education from a Harvard seminar), is a demanding boss. "When the phone rings on a Sunday morning, you know it's Vagelos," says Edward Scolnick, president of Merck Labs. But the chairman also wins high marks for staying in touch with his staff. He keeps his spartan office open...
...were the H Band, featuring the members of Men of Clay (Ben and Tom Hammond on guitar and bass, respectively, and Shankar Ramaswami on drums) and Fred Heiberger on keyboards. They served as the pick-up group for several of the acts and rocked out on their own with "Trim." This was a piece of driving fusion, with throbbing chromatics, and a bit o' Hendrix in Hammond's solo. This otherwise excellent piece fizzled out, however, in banal repetition of a one-measure motif...
Arguments that the caucus results too rigidly constrain national debate are unfounded. The caucus may trim the fat but it certainly doesn't cut back the beef--indications this year are that all three of the top Democratic runners will maintain momentum for some time to come. With Bush still leading the polls in New Hampshire, Dole's glory ride could be short-lived. Virtually no political experts interviewed by the press would dare make predictions based solely on this week's results...