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...discusses overtime reform every off-season. In both 2003 and 2004, owners voted on a scaled-back version of the proposal outlined above. Each team would be guaranteed a single offensive possession, but after that, it would be sudden death, first to score wins. Not 100% fair, but a vast improvement over the current rules. To implement a rule change, three-fourths of the owners must agree with the proposal. In '03, just 55% of the owners approved it. The next year, only 22% jumped on board...
...California - with some even directed at blacks who are fighting to repeal Prop. 8. Said Evan Wolfson, executive director of nonprofit group Freedom to Marry: "In any fight, there will be people who say things they shouldn't say, but that shouldn't divert attention from what the vast majority are saying against this, that it's a terrible injustice." (See the Top 10 ballot measures...
...believes consumers have a right to know how their food is made. She is the co-author of a new study that sampled almost 500 fast food items from McDonald's, Wendy's and Burger King and proved what many Americans may already suspect: On a chemical level, the vast majority of fast food meat derives from a single source: corn. She did this by following the vegetable's unique chemical markers that persist even after it's been processed and mixed with other ingredients or eaten as cattle feed. (Corn is heavily used in feedlots to fatten cows...
...world of spirit. Convinced that it held secrets the modern world was in dire need of, Chopra turned his life around. He stopped the cigarettes and alcohol and plunged into a study of Ayurveda and other sciences of traditional healing. Soon he was downloading In-dia's vast corpus of wisdom on the subject into a series of slim, digestible volumes with names like Perfect Health and Uncondi-tional Life. From insomnia to obesity to cancer, no modern misery went unexamined...
This year, NSSE surveyed more than 380,000 randomly selected students at 722 four-year colleges and universities. And the results were surprising. Rather than showing vast differences between schools, the survey highlighted huge disparities in how well each campus was engaging all of its students. For instance, how engineering students scored the quality of on-campus tutoring programs at School A vs. School B may not have varied much. But how School A's engineering students judged those programs may be radically different from how School A's business students do. That finding underscores why using one single number...