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...poll conducted in January 1966 by the Harvard student government, 62 percent of those polled voted to exclude women entirely; 19 percent voted to allow women inside only weekdays between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. and 19 percent voted to admit women at all times...
Domenici and Wellstone point out that the legislation is a solid long-term investment, since it would help people get treated before their illnesses become so severe that they lose their jobs or hurt themselves. Even business lobbyists admit that the cost increases for mental-health insurance will be small (maybe 1%). But they fear it will open the door to other mandates as well. "You have to remember that the Patient's Bill of Rights is being considered too," says Kate Sullivan of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, referring to the proposal in Congress to make it easier...
...wars are over; the browser battle is winding down. For all Microsoft's muttering about how its rival wants to create a direct competitor to Windows--the so-called AOL PC--Case would admit to no area in which the two firms are in danger of butting heads on equal terms...
That's not the only mystery. Scientists are almost embarrassed to admit that they still don't know why soy lowers cholesterol levels in the first place. For a long time they believed the key ingredients to be isoflavones--which sounds like the name of a new rock band but in fact refers to a group of naturally occurring plant chemicals that weakly mimic the effects of estrogen hormones in some parts of the body while acting like antihormones in others...
...will cut them down to half an hour centered on the comedy storylines and run them as a new, primetime series. He got the idea a month ago, when he was struggling to get his popular drama into the syndication market, where sitcoms do much better. "I have to admit, it's probably the first time in my life I've ever led with my business nose," he says...