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...many last fall (when their party was out of power) than it does now. The most popular version, sponsored by Representative Bill McCollum of Florida, would limit House and Senate members to 12 years in office once the measure is ratified by the states. But even its proponents admit that they have only about 185 solid Republican votes and 35 Democratic votes for the measure--70 short of the 290 needed to amend the Constitution. According to the Term Limits Legal Institute, approximately 35 of the G.O.P. holdouts--including nine committee chairmen--have spent an average of 14 years...
According to a survey by Cynara Stites, a clinical social worker at the University of Connecticut, professors themselves admit the potential for exploitation in such romances: 9 out of 10 agreed that a student who breaks up with a professor risks "unfair reprisals." More than half the male faculty members agreed that a professor who sleeps with a student he supervises is taking advantage of her. "There's a real risk of her losing her entire academic career," explains Stites. "It undermines her self-confidence. She doesn't know whether [her success is] based on her lover or based...
...some cosmologists to admit the need to re-examine ideas upon which they have constructed their theories in the light of new information is indeed refreshing [Science, March 6]. Fortunately, these scientists appear to lack the disturbing habit, found so often in evolution-based sciences, of ignoring or explaining away empirical evidence that contradicts fervently held beliefs...
...fear is real, as Bonnie DeAngelis, director of Norfolk's Hillcrest Clinic knows only too well. Even before John Salvi allegedly shot up the clinic's windows, four Hillcrest doctors had decided to quit performing abortions. "Providers and pro-choice people don't want to admit that the antiabortion movement in this country has been succeeding in their terrorist tactics," she said. "But a very, very small group of people is winning...
...must admit, I don't know much about sports. I mean, I know the general rules of most (or at least most that have teams at Harvard), but I don't follow those teams that closely...