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My stocks are doing O.K., but my gene portfolio took a big hit recently. Doctors at Johns Hopkins announced that they have discovered a genetic mutation in Ashkenazi Jews that doubles the risk of colon cancer. Ashkenazi Jews are those with roots in Central and Eastern Europe. That covers most...
And in the '90s, what? Punk poets came and went, Kurt Cobain chief among them, and a folk-rock movement arose again--neo-folkies like Beck, Indigo Girls, Laura Love, all charged with youth but drawing on the past. Where was Dylan? His albums in the '90s have been mostly...
We begin with a consideration of those goodies which arrive in our common rooms, freshbaked and straight out of the oven for the first time. This year's crop of new shows covers a wide expanse of artistic territory, from gritty cop dramas, to gritty district attorney dramas, to gritty...
The purchasing power of federal grants is declining as well. For instance, the maximum federal Pell Grant, available to the neediest students, formerly covered up to one-third of the cost of fees at a private, four-year institution. Today, it covers only one-seventh of the tuition.
The good new ones include two great punch line shorts, "Sea Slugs!" and "Yes, Timmy, There is a Santa Claus." (The latter, like others in the show, may be familiar to many viewers, despite the "premiere" labeling.) "Fast Driver" parodies "Speed Racer" with results hysterical even for those unfamiliar with...