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Meyer said the Corporation relies on a formula to guide its decision about payout. The formula gives 70 percent weight to the previous year’s spending plus the Higher Education Price Index—a measure of inflation—and 30 percent weight to the endowment’s market performance...
Wechsler defines binge drinking as five drinks in a row for men and four for women over the previous two weeks. Critics felt that his measure ought to incorporate data like weight and time interval...
...that people in politics are all liars. I think that's very dangerous." Campbell speaks with the zeal of a convert; he's a former tabloid reporter who jumped officially to the Labour Party after Blair became its leader in 1994. But in this case he may have the weight of evidence on his side, since Britain's top spies appear to be backing Campbell's insistence that although he did suggest some small changes to the dossier text, they kept control of it, and in particular, originated the provocative claim that Iraq had WMD ready to deploy...
...Clearly, this is all part of the whole 'Oh, my God, we have an obesity epidemic' thing." HOPE WARSHAW, dietitian and author of Eat Out, Eat Right, on the Applebee's chain's deal with Weight Watchers to offer low-calorie alternatives on its menu...
...years, doctors assumed that children, biochemically speaking, are little adults. So anytime they had to give a child a grownup medication, such as Prozac, they just lowered the dose on the basis of his or her weight. But in 1998 the FDA ruled that companies had to conduct pediatric tests of adult drugs. That rule followed a 1997 law offering drugmakers a six-month extension on their patents if they did so voluntarily...