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...Republican in a decade who doesn't want to blow up the Education Department and padlock the I.R.S. He wants to spend a trillion dollars of the surplus to let people invest part of their Social Security taxes in the stock market, yet he promises not to cut benefits, although there would be no spare trillion lying around to fund them. He blasts Gore for proposing more new spending than at any time since the Great Society--except that he is doing the same...
...Neil MacDonald, a vice president of the Gartner Group research firm. "Companies weren't planning on instant messaging, but it's become a critical part of business today." Gartner predicts that by 2003 at least some employees at fully 90% of big U.S. companies will be swapping instant messages. Although given the speed with which IM is spreading, that date seems conservative...
...Although the first statins were approved in the U.S. in 1987, they didn't really take off until 1994, when researchers in Scandinavia proved that simvastatin (brand name Zocor) could significantly decrease a heart patient's risk of dying from a second heart attack. After investigators showed that both simvastatin and pravastatin (Pravachol) could cut the number of first heart attacks among those with high cholesterol, doctors assumed that all statins could do likewise...
...Although Georgia's population is 28% black, as are 6% of the students at the university's main campus in Athens, few blacks are members of the 42 historically white fraternities and sororities there. The Greek organizations and the university declined to provide a racial breakdown but say that some blacks do belong to white sororities or fraternities. Examining this pattern after years of looking the other way "has been painful, as holding a mirror up often is," says Richard Mullendore, the school's vice president of student affairs...
...Although perhaps racy for someone called Missy, those sins sound tame compared with recent reports that nearly one-third of teens have sex by age 15, and that the second leading cause of death among 15- to 19-year-olds is being murdered with...