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...name it, the Crimson backs did it on Saturday, marching Harvard right through Princeton with uncommon ease...
...proud as I am of my family's achievements, I know there is nothing unique -- or even uncommon -- about the strides we've made. You don't have to delve far into the history of any successful black American to find someone like my grandfather. Someone, that is, like Clarence Thomas' grandfather, Myers Anderson, who raised him from the age of seven, sent him to Catholic school and taught him that hard work and self-reliance could overcome any obstacle discrimination might put in his way -- if he was willing to pay the price...
Take another look in the pantry: it might be a drugstore. Six of the latest hot health foods are common, garden-variety foodstuffs, from garlic to celery and -- sorry, George Bush -- broccoli, that show uncommon potential for preventing cancer, heart disease and other illnesses. Scientists are only beginning to appreciate the way that common plants store potent chemical compounds that may block the body's synthesis of carcinogens or decrease cholesterol levels in the blood. "We're finally catching up with what vegetarians and health-food nuts believed all along," says Jon Michnovicz, medical director of New York City...
...that the practice of compensating favored customers for losses is uncommon in Japan, nor is it necessarily illegal. Government regulations only forbid companies from promising "in advance" that a customer would be compensated if market losses occur. Then why the outrage? For one thing, the amounts paid to wealthy customers were large, estimated at $465 million for the Big Four firms, which cut into profits that should have gone to stockholders. Then there was the question of fair play in favoring big customers over small ones. Add to that the unsavory (but probably legal) loans to a crime boss...
...derived from several sources: satellite and aerial- reconnaissance photos, interrogation of prisoners of war, reports from spies and special forces operating behind enemy lines, historical ratios of what percentages of forces engaged have been killed or wounded in past battles. Actual counts of corpses in the gulf war were uncommon. Most dead Iraqis were buried hastily by their comrades before the ground war or by Saudi soldiers after it, with little or no tally...