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...girl's undergo hilarious initiation rituals. In one scene, in the middle of a parking lot, the junior high girls lay on the asphalt while the seniors douse them with mustard, ketchup and flour. They have to mockingly propose to some of the geeky senior men and suck on pacifiers while they're being tortured. With lines like "fry like bacon you freshman piggies," "since you little prick-teases can't follow instructions..." and the command of "AIR RAID!!!!!" the film's hilarity will become a part of your everyday conversation. I guess that's the biggest compliment...
...common human virus may play an integral role in coronary disease, according to preliminary findings by National Institutes of Health researchers, by inhibiting the action of a gene that normally limits cell growth. Up to half of patients who undergo balloon angioplasty to relieve arterial blockages suffer renewed arterial narrowing within six months. Researchers may have ! identified the cause: the cytomegalovirus, which appears to limit the protective benefits of the p53 gene, thus leading to the regrowth of muscle cells in vessels treated with angioplasty...
...Union, which will undergo extensiverenovations beginning next June, is designed tofacilitate the transition from dining hall intohumanities center...
...themselves haven't realized the extent of their degradation just yet; they are too busy grappling with a present dilemma precipitated by the profusion of grotes-queries. The next courtroom appearance for O.J. happens to coincide exactly with that of the infamous Menendez brothers. The latter celebrities are to undergo a ritual which the Simpson case has elevated from legalistic obscurity to event of national import: the "pre-trial" hearing. Why waste time on self-examination when the really crucial question is yet to be decided: Which freak gets top billing in the rogue's gallery...
...People's Republic of China, though, could itself undergo turbulent change in the near future. Deng Xiaoping is almost 90, and none of the scores of officials who have filed through the high positions of prime minister and president with Deng in the background have had the personal recognition or staying power to match him. Reports of Deng's ill health have come more and more often in recent months, with one even disputed by his daughter in a statement to the international media...