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...Forbes has managed to avoid any hand-to-hand combat, it may be because it's a skill he has practiced all his life. As rivals and reporters dig through his biography and professional record, a pattern that emerges is a gift for conflict avoidance. Being rich, to start with, provides a lot of cushion. Forbes' Princeton friend Chris Leach recalls the day in 1970 when he borrowed Forbes' brand-new, bright orange Mercury Cougar XR-7 to make a pizza run--and totaled it. When Steve found out, Leach recalls, "he just looked at me and said...
...turns out, however, that the body and the virus engage in mortal combat from the beginning. The main battlefield is not the circulatory system (where physicians had been looking for the virus, dutifully taking blood samples every few months) but in the hard-to-reach lymph nodes. Now scientists realize that there is a window of opportunity, and a fairly large one at that, to attack the virus while it is still hiding, before it has started to wreak havoc on the body's natural defenses...
...would like to lend our full-fledged support to Youth Vote, which seems a solid, well-thought-out attempt to combat voter apathy in the United States. And voter apathy is certainly a problem. According to conference organizer Ivan Frishberg, who is also higher education advocate for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, the overall voter turnout in the 1992 presidential election was 63.1 percent, and the turnout among 18- to 24-year-olds was only 43 percent. Turnouts for non-presidential elections are usually much lower...
Duehay and Russell both say that the city officials have been devising measures to combat the harshest effects of Question...
...result of the city's educational efforts, the only teens trying to purchase cigarettes in the future may be those sent undercover by the tobacco campaign program. To combat tobacco industry advertising campaigns which target young audiences, the city has begun anti-smoking educational programs in local youth centers and schools. Researchers have found that teens who have friends that smoke are twice as likely to light up as those that don't. We congratulate the City on its efforts to crack down on smoking and hope it will continue the push to alleviate the problems of selling cigarettes...