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This "fab" ab fad is, of course, grounded in vanity. Unlike cardiovascular exercise which strengthens the heart, or weightlifting which enables athletes to compete at a higher level, developing the abdominal muscles offers little reward aside from physical appearance (unless your name happens to be Li Xioa-Xuang and you are performing the iron cross on the rings...
...Burnes article on the Weld-Kerry debate belonged on the editorial page. That simply is not how news is reported. Debates are not as clear-cut as football games unless Admiral Stockdale is involved. The Lerer article on Radcliffe's convocation eroded into a gossip sheet. How can you tell if someone is listening to a speech anyway? I guess we could ask the unnamed observers if only we knew who they were. Finally, The Crimson has a right to say how they feel on their editorial page about Dean Lewis, but our readers are right. Battles have...
...said students would "probably not" be reimbursed unless it could be determined that the damage was "obviously the result of negligence on our part...
...oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to a portion of her brain. Sometimes the culprit is a leaky artery. But in Phillips' case, as in 80% of strokes, the problem, revealed by a CAT scan, was a clot that was plugging up one of the blood vessels in her head. Unless the clot was dislodged, part of her brain would die, leaving her at least partly paralyzed...
...genetic traits that have nothing to do with disease. Genes have not been found for good looks, high IQ or artistic talent, but if they ever are, prospective parents are sure to want them. PGD is already in demand for sex selection, though doctors refuse to use it unless there is a clear medical reason. For now the technique is being employed to bring healthy children into the world. Whether those children prove to be smart or good looking will still have to depend, at least for the present, on the roll of the genetic dice...