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TAMAGOTCHI FOR YOUR WRIST...
Students who suffer from Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)--arm and wrist pains usually caused by excessive typing or poor typing skills--are finding it more difficult to get help from the University this year...
...their support. The President's job approval rating clings onto those mid-60s for dear life, say CBS, NBC and ABC. What's more, the largest percentage of those polls -- between 59 and 67 -- favor neither impeachment nor resignation but a third option: congressional censure, a slap on the wrist. That's the closest there is to a consensus in the country right now, and it could be that the President's seemingly untenable public posture -- sending his lawyers onto talk shows to argue that perjury is not perjury -- may just be the first step on the road...
WASHINGTON: Could Congress find a neat conclusion to the Lewinsky mess -- by giving Bill Clinton a 164-year-old slap on the wrist? Congressional censure of the President: It hasn't been used since Andrew Jackson, has absolutely no legal ramifications, and 55 percent of people say they want the President to get one. "Impeachment is the nuclear option," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan. "It's not proportional to the crime. Censure is, and it's very much a possibility. There are current precedents, too: Newt Gingrich got censured, and that didn't diminish his stature...
These and other findings will be compared with base-line readings taken before lift-off, which are already being assembled. Glenn routinely walks around the grounds of NASA's Houston facility with monitors strapped to his wrist and belt. When he returns from space, he will face yet another battery of tests, including an MRI to look for changes in his spinal cord and bone-density tests to look for mineral loss. "All of this," Glenn says, "gives us the potential not only of dealing with the frailties of our already aged population but of helping younger people avoid problems...