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...That’s good news for Zambrano, who is hoping for “a little bit of slack on the SAT scores.” Perhaps they’ll put more weight on other parts of his applications, like his essays, which he sees as the strongest part of his application: “It’s not numbers and letters,” he says. “It’s the closest they can get to actually knowing me as a person rather than from a computer screen or numbers...
...knew intellectually, of course, but to look at it closely was just amazing. It wasn't just that she was the only woman in the Washington TV news corps - that was difficult - but the rumors about her and the men she covered must have been such an emotional weight on her. Every time she did well people would whisper louder that she achieved what she did because she was flirting or doing more. Beyond that it was extraordinary to read what television executives, many of them at her own network, said during the '60s and '70s about how women were...
...that political reality, Bush isn't likely to push for a sea change. Nevertheless, it was only seven years ago, in Kosovo, that Germany first committed combat troops to a NATO mission at all. Over time, if Germany moves into a foreign-policy role consonant with its economic weight, a more self-assured stance might become politically acceptable...
This recliner with electronic biosensors can measure things like weight and blood pressure when a person just plops in it to watch television. The readings are transmitted by phone line to a control center where a nurse reviews them and can chat with the patient about his condition from the screen of his TV set. Commwell, Inc., the Illinois firm that makes the chair, hopes to lease the system to customers for $150 a month beginning...
Women who put on pounds as adults have new reason to be worried about breast cancer. A study of 44,161 postmenopausal women linked adult weight gain to a higher lifetime risk for all types, stages and grades of breast cancer, particularly advanced malignancies. The risk for women who gained more than 60 lbs. was three times as great. Reason: breast-cancer risk is linked to lifetime levels of the hormone estrogen. Fat tissue increases circulating estrogen, thereby adding to the risk...