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...English-speaking residents became upset when a recently opened medical clinic trained its employees to answer the phones in Portuguese rather than English, Larkin says...
...teams currently at or near the top of the standings--Dartmouth (17-7, 9-2 Ivy), Penn (17-8, 8-3), and Harvard (15-8, 8-3)--have occupied the leader's spot at least once. Less than two weeks ago, the trio was tied for first place, but upset losses suffered by the Crimson and the Quakers gave the Big Green a one-game advantage...
...release of the 11,000-word report seems almost designed to upset the political applecart in the U.S.--in the many diplomatic meetings since the May bombing, some of which discussed Taiwan at length, no mention was made by Chinese officials of the shift in policy. Perhaps the U.S. should have expected some kind of "February surprise" before the Taiwanese elections; after all, the last time Taiwan had presidential elections, in 1996, China fired missiles off the Taiwan coast in a none-too-subtle warning...
Memory makes us who we are. And because it is our identity, we worry about it, fretting if we can't remember the name of someone we just met--or know well--getting upset when we can't recall where we put our keys or left the car in the parking lot or whether we mailed the phone bill. We walk into a room and halt in midstride, the purpose forgotten. These annoying things happen to most of us eventually, and for a simple reason. Just as the body changes over time, so does the brain. "On any intelligence...
Marriage has been ratings gold before. Thank Tiny Tim, Luke and Laura, and, most of all, Chuck and Di for that. But it used to be that at least one partner needed to be famous. Fox upset that rule--and just may have found its answer to the ABC phenom Who Wants to Be a Millionaire--with the crass namesake and surprise smash Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? In the process, it underscored the new reality of TV's New Reality: oddball, cheap nonfiction programs, from game shows to voyeurism stunts, are elbowing aside sitcoms and dramas...